SOURCE: Bennett, A. L. “The Sources of Shakespeare's Merry Wives.” Renaissance Quarterly 23, no. 4 (winter 1970): 429-33.
In the following essay, Bennett contends that Shakespeare based The Merry Wives of Windsor on Ralph Roister Doister, an old English comedy.
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