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The first quarto of the Merry wives of Windsor /

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The First Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor is the most fascinatingly problematic of all the early Shakespearean texts. Was it an authorial first draft? Or a cut-down version of the better-known Folio text designed for acting? Or a text put together from faulty actors' memories? Or a reporte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: Lindley, David, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:New Cambridge Shakespeare.
Subjects:
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) > Drama.
Married women > Drama.
Bardolph (Fictitious character : Shakespeare) > Drama.
Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England) > Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Dating and sequencing of quarto and folio
  • The copy for the quarto
  • Verse and prose
  • Theatrical adaptation?
  • Memorial reconstruction?
  • Notetakers and shorthand reporters?
  • The play.