num_pages: 175
description: This new edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor focuses at every point on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasizing the liveliness of the play in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this citizen comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he also examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds within the play.
language: English
title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
titlecomplete: The Merry Wives of Windsor (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
characters: John, servant in the Ford household, Abraham Slender, Robin, Page to Falstaff, Doctor Caius, Anne (Nan) Page, Mistress Alice Ford, Bardolph, Robert Shallow, Corporal Nim, Ancient Pistol, Peter Simple, John Rugby, Sir John Falstaff, Mistress Nell Quickly, Parson Hugh Evans, Fenton, George Page, Host of the Garter Inn, Frank Ford, Robert, servant in the Ford household, William Page, Mistress Margaret (Meg) Page
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, British Literature, Drama, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 12843
publisher: Cambridge University Press