The Merry Wives of Windsor (Vol. 38) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Beiner, G. "The Merry Wives of Windsor." In Shakespeare's Agnostic Comedy: Poetics, Analysis, Criticism, pp. 143-67. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993.
Examines the comic structure of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Carroll, William C. "Falstaff and Ford: Forming and Reforming." In The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy, pp. 178-202. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Studies Falstaff s transformation into a "comic monster."
Clark, Sandra. "'Wives May Be Merry and Yet Honest Too': Women and Wit in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Some Other Plays." In "'Fanned and Winnowed Opinions": Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins, edited by John W. Mahon and Thomas A. Pendleton, pp. 249-67. London: Methuen, 1987.
Examines the wives use of wit in the play, which she contends "operates as a means of obtaining revenge for women against the insults...
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