Merry Wives of Windsor (1922) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare).

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THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR

 

EDITED BY
GEORGE VAN SANTVOORD

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXII

 

Copyright, 1922
By Yale University Press

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First published, January, 1922

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	23
⁠Act III	46
⁠Act IV	72
⁠Act V	94
Notes	109
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	119
Appendix B. The History of the Play	121
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	125
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	127
Index of Words Glossed	128

 

The map opposite is reproduced from John Norden's 'Plan or Bird's-eye View of Windsor Castle from the North' executed for James I in 1607 and now preserved in the British Museum (MS. Harley 3749).

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society