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William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Oxford Shakespeare - 9780199536825 - V9780199536825
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The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Oxford Shakespeare

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Description for The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Oxford Shakespeare Paperback. Editor(s): Craik, T. W. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597: Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that went into his Henry IV plays. Falstaff is here, with Pistol, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow, in a spirited and warm-hearted 'citizen comedy'. Boisterous action is combined with situational irony and rich characterization. In his introduction T. W. Craik discusses the play's probable occasion (the Garter Feast of 1597 at court), its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history (with particular reference to the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536825
SKU
V9780199536825
Shipping Time
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Reviews for The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Oxford Shakespeare
`T.W. Craik's edition of The Merry Wives is excellent ... can be recommended as one of the most scholarly, helpful, and authoritative texts so far to appear in the Oxford series.' The Review of English Studies `One of the strengths of Craik's edition is his careful and subtle analysis of the construction of the play ... Professor Craik's close attention ... Read more

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