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The Merry Wives of Windsor (Vol. 71) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Green, William. Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962, 239 p.

Book-length study of the play and its relationship to Shakespeare's England and to the Henry IV and Henry V plays.

Korda, Natasha. “‘Judicious oeillades’: Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor.” In Marxist Shakespeares, edited by Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow, pp. 82-103. London: Routledge, 2001.

Offers a feminist-Marxist reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor, viewing it as a domestic comedy which examines housewifery and the management of household property.

Mace, Nancy A. “Falstaff, Quin, and the Popularity of The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Eighteenth Century.” Theatre Survey 31, no. 1 (May 1990): 55-66.

Argues that The Merry Wives of Windsor was not as...

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