A modernised edition of one of the most controversial early texts of a Shakespeare play. With a full introduction discussing the various theories of its origins.

The first page of the first quarto of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Here, the original title is displayed: A Most Pleasant and Excellent Conceited Comedie of Syr John Falstaff, and the Merrie Wives of Windsor: Entermixed with Sundrie Variable and Pleasing Humors, of Syr Hugh the Welch Knight, Justice Shallow, and His Wife Cousin M. Slender.

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