Part of: Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (facs. 1st Folio 1623) The Merry Wives of Windsor (facs. 1st Folio 1623)

Theatrical tradition (probably spurious) has it that Shakespeare wrote Merry Wives of Windsor in response to Queen Elizabeth’s demand to see a play with Falstaff in love. This is a facsimile edition of the play from the First Folio edition of 1623.

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Citation

Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. with an Introduction and Census of Copies by Sidney Lee (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1902).

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