SOURCE: "Play and Comic Creation in The Merry Wives of Windsor," in Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 143-51.
In the following essay, Osborne assesses Jean Piaget's theories of play—as it relates to the association between drama and play in the wives' attitudes—to show how Shakespeare uses them "as a way to test the conventions, genres, and narrative paradigms which form the comic world of Windsor. "
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