SOURCE: "Romantic Comedies," in A Kind of Wild Justice: Revenge in Shakespeare's Comedies, University of Delaware Press, 1987, pp. 57-125.
In this excerpt, Anderson studies the device of comic revenge in The Merry Wives of Windsor, examining the numerous revenge plots in the play and exploring the motivations behind them.
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