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The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor [1] is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor , also the location of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England .
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Catalan Les alegres comares de Windsor: Josep Carner: 1909 Gutenberg: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Afrikaans Midsomernagdroom: Eitemal (Professor W. J. du P. Erlank) Cape Town: 1974 9780798104340 0798104341 749902101 Sol Plaatje Archive: Dutch Een Midzomernachtdroom: Leendert Alexander Johannes Burgersdijk Antwerp ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602, 1619; Hamlet, 1603, 1604, 1611; ... First Folio from Project Gutenberg; First Folio—digitally scanned pages from a copy of the ...
Shallow and Silence by J. Coghlan, c.1820. Robert Shallow is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.He is a wealthy landowner and Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire, who at the time of The Merry Wives of Windsor is said to be over 80 ("four score years and upward").
It is mostly based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor. [20] Falstaff (1913), a "symphonic study" (or symphonic poem) by Edward Elgar, depicts Falstaff's life. [21] At the Boar's Head (1925), a short opera by Gustav Holst based on the Henry IV plays. [22] Sir John in Love (1929), an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of ...
As an independent scholar, Greg produced editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910), Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso and George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar (published together, 1923), and Sir Thomas More (1911). He returned to specific editing with work on Doctor Faustus (1950).
Characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1 C, 6 P) W. Works based on The Merry Wives of Windsor (3 C) Pages in category "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
In The Merry Wives of Windsor she works as nurse to Caius, a French physician, but primarily acts as a messenger between other characters, communicating love notes in a plot largely concerned with misdirected letters. [8] At the end she takes the role of the queen of the fairies in the practical joke played on Falstaff.