SOURCE: Clark, Sandra. “‘Wives may be merry and yet honest too’: Women and Wit in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Some Other Plays.” In “Fanned and Winnowed Opinions”: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins, edited by John W. Mahon and Thomas A. Pendleton, pp. 249-67. London, England: Methuen, 1987.
In the following essay, Clark studies the literary tradition of women's wit, particularly in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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