The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor PDF

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 3986778918

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The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It has been adapted for the opera on occasions.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor PDF

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781557834393

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(Applause Books). If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.