The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare featuring Sir John Falstaff, a popular character from his plays about Henry IV.
Bibliographic notesThe Merry Wives of Windsor was first published in quarto in 1602. A much longer version was published in the First Folio of 1623, published seven years after Shakespeare's death. Later editions may include material from both versions.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- Les Alegres Comares de Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor in Catalan), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Josep Carner (Gutenberg text)
- Les Joyeuses Bourgeoises de Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg text)
- Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor (New York et al.: American book Co., 1905), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe
- The Merry Wiues of Windsor (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (based on the 1923 Cambridge edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
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