Merry Wives of Windsor (Arden Shakespeare Second)

Merry Wives of Windsor (Arden Shakespeare Second) by William Shakespeare. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415026987.

This new edition of Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor focuses at every point 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 Shakespeares fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he also examines Shakespeare free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds within the play.