The merry wives of Windsor
By: edited by David Crane.
Contributors: Crane, D. E. L.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: The new Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521197106; 9780521146814
Subjects: Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Drama; Married women -- Drama; Windsor (Berkshire, England) -- Drama
Genres: Drama
Description: "This new edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising 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. The revision of this edition includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of Merry Wives, and also considers how recent productions bear upon the critical and theatrical account Crane gives of the play"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the date and first occasion of the play; The world of the play; Some moments in the play; The play on the stage; Recent critical and stage interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; THE PLAY; Textual analysis; Reading list.