SOURCE: “Shakespeare's Merry Wives and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance,” in Renaissance Drama, n.s., XXV, 1994, pp. 145-69.
In the following essay, originally presented in 1992, Ross examines the fraudulent practices that occur in The Merry Wives of Windsor, which center principally but not exclusively around Falstaff, and argues that the ambivalent outcomes of these practices reflect the ambiguous morals of Renaissance society.
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