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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The Merry Wives of Windsor eBook
22,276 words, approx. 74 pages
The complete online text of The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare.


Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Information
2,705 words, approx. 9 pages
<i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> is a comedy by William Shakespeare featuring the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary English...


News and Journals
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AP Features
Plays dominate Broadway's fall season
9/7/2007: 1,798 words, approx. 6 pages
A monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that _ surprisingly _ are dominating the first half of the season."The lineup of production for the fall season should...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Wendy Wall
15,267 words, approx. 51 pages
In the following excerpt, Wall studies the relationship between the play's treatment of fairylore and Elizabethan conceptions of social order.
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Critical Essay by Edward Berry
12,949 words, approx. 43 pages
In the essay below, Berry maintains that the Falstaff of the Henry IV plays is linked to the Falstaff of Merry Wives of Windsor through the issues of poaching and social rebellion. Berry explores Falstaff's role within The Merry Wives of Windsor, demonstrating the ways in which Falstaff, as a poacher and a fallen knight, poses a threat to society and emphasizes the conflict between the court and the Windsor bourgeois society.
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Critical Essay by Philip D. Collington
12,518 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following essay, Collington argues that The Merry Wives of Windsor is a parody of the genre of domestic tragedy.
 


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