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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

    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. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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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

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 291 3

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      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.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      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

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