The merry wives of Windsor / edited by George Van Santvoord
Shakespeare's "merry wives" are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two play practical jokes on Mistress Ford's jealous husband and a visiting knight, Sir John Falstaff. Merry wives, jealous husbands, and predatory knights were common in a kind of play called "citizen comedy" or "city comedy." In such plays, courtiers, gentlemen, or knights use social superiority to seduce citizens' wives. The Windsor wives, though, do not follow that pattern. Instead, Falstaff's offer of himself as lover inspires their torment of him. Falstaff responds with the same linguistic facility that Shakespeare gives him in the history plays in which he appears, making him the "hero" of the play for many audiences.
Record details
- Physical Description: 134 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plate : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1922]
- Copyright: ©1922
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- "Suggestions for collateral reading" (page 127).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The text -- Notes -- Appendix A. Sources of the play -- Appendix B. The history of the play -- Appendix C. The text of the present edition -- Appendix D. Suggestions for collateral reading -- Index of words glossed.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 822.3 s 98119 (Text) | 36015000619649 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
