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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 23 OF 74
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2012
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‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’
William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)
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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition
This eBook is Part 23 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Merry Wives of Windsor from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IN 74 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Plays
1, Henry VI, Part 2
2, Henry VI, Part 3
3, Henry VI, Part 1
4, Richard III
5, The Comedy of Errors
6, Titus Andronicus
7, Taming of the Shrew
8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
9, Love’s Labour’s Lost
10, Romeo and Juliet
11, Richard II
12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13, King John
14, The Merchant of Venice
15, Henry IV, Part I
16, Henry IV, Part II
17, Much Ado About Nothing
18, Henry V
19, Julius Caesar
20, As You Like It
21, Twelfth Night
22, Hamlet
23, The Merry Wives of Windsor
24, Troilus and Cressida
25, All’s Well that Ends Well
26, Measure for Measure
27, Othello
28, King Lear
29, Macbeth
30, Antony and Cleopatra
31, Coriolanus
32, Timon of Athens
33, Pericles
34, Cymbeline
35, The Winter’s Tale
36, The Tempest
37, Henry VIII
38, The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Lost Plays
39, The Lost Plays
The Sources
40, The Plays’ Sources
The Apocryphal Plays
41, Arden of Faversham
42, The Birth of Merlin
43, King Edward III
44, Locrine
45, The London Prodigal
46, The Puritan
47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
48, Sir John Oldcastle
49, Thomas Lord Cromwell
50, A Yorkshire Tragedy
51, Sir Thomas More
52, Fair Em
53, Mucedorus
54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton
55, Edmund Ironside
56, Thomas of Woodstock
57, Vortigern and Rowena
The Adaptations
58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Poetry
59, The Sonnets
60, Venus and Adonis
61, The Rape of Lucrece
62, The Passionate Pilgrim
63, The Phoenix and the Turtle
64, A Lover’s Complaint
The Apocryphal Poetry
65, To the Queen
66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
The Criticism
68, The Criticism
The Biographies
69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe
70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson
71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee
72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson
73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
Resources
74, Resources
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
This comedy boasts the distinction of being the only played solely sourced by Shakespeare. Believed to have been written prior to 1597, it features the bard’s popular character the stout knight Sir John Falstaff, and The Merry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare’s only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan life. It is believed that Elizabeth I herself requested Shakespeare to write another play featuring Falstaff and this hilarious comedy is the result of that request.
‘Falstaff and Mistress Quickly’ by Francis Philip Stephanoff, 1840
The 1602 Quarto version title page
CONTENTS
Dramatis Personæ
Act I. Scene I.
Act I. Scene II.
Act I. Scene III.
Act I. Scene IV.
Act II. Scene I.
Act II. Scene II.
Act II. Scene III.
Act III. Scene I.
Act III. Scene II.
Act III. Scene III.
Act III. Scene IV.
Act III. Scene V.
Act IV. Scene I.
Act IV. Scene II.
Act IV. Scene III.
Act IV. Scene IV.
Act IV. Scene V.
Act IV. Scene VI.
Act V. Scene I.
Act V. Scene II.
Act V. Scene III.
Act V. Scene IV.
Act V. Scene V.
Dramatis Personæ
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
FENTON, a young Gentleman.
SHALLOW, a Country Justice.
SLENDER, Cousin to Shallow.
FORD & PAGE: two Gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.
WILLIAM PAGE, a Boy, Son to Page.
SIR HUGH EVANS, a Welsh Parson.
DOCTOR CAIUS, a French Physician.
HOST of the Garter Inn.
BARDOLPH, PISTOL, & NYM: Followers of Falstaff.
ROBIN, Page to Falstaff.
SIMPLE, Servant to Slender.
RUGBY, Servant to Doctor Caius.
MISTRESS FORD.
MISTRESS PAGE.
ANNE PAGE, her Daughter, in love with Fenton.
MISTRESS QUICKLY, Servant to Doctor Caius.
Servants to Page, Ford, &c.
SCENE. — Windsor; and the Neighbourhood.
Act I. Scene I.
Windsor. Before PAGE’S House.
Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.
Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.
Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice of peace, and coram.
Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and cust-alorum. 5
Slen. Ay, and rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, — armigero.
Shal. Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three hundred years.
Slen. All his successors gone before him hath done ‘t; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may give the dozen white luces in their coat.
Shal. It is an old coat.
Eva. The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, Passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. 10
Shal. The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.
Slen. I may quarter, coz?
Shal. You may, by marrying.
Eva. It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.
Shal. Not a whit. 15
Eva. Yes, py’r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat, there is but three skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the Church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and compremises between you.
Shal. The Council shall hear it; it is a riot.
Eva. It is not meet the Council hear a riot; there is no fear of Got in a riot. The Council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a riot; take your vizaments in that.
Shal. Ha! o’ my life, if I were young again, the sword