SOURCE: "Elizabethan Merry Tales and The Merry Wives of Windsor: Shakespeare and 'Popular' Literature," in Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando, edited by Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, D. S. Brewer, 1992, pp. 145-59.
In the essay below, Brewer discusses the connections between Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and the popular Elizabethan genre known as "jest books " or "merry tales. "
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