The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2nd Edition
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2nd Edition  -     Edited By: David Crane
    By: William Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2nd Edition

Edited By: David Crane
Cambridge Bibles / 2010 / Paperback

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This new edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising the liveliness of the play in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this citizen comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he also examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds within the play. The revision of this edition includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of Merry Wives, and also considers how recent productions bear upon the critical and theatrical account Crane gives of the play.

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Title: The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2nd Edition
By: William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 186
Vendor: Cambridge Bibles
Publication Date: 2010
Dimensions: 8.98 X 5.98 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 052114681X
ISBN-13: 9780521146814
Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
Stock No: WW146814

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor David Crane emphasises the liveliness of the play in stage terms. He also claims that this citizen comedy was an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds. An account of the play's textual history concludes that at the time of its earliest performances Shakespeare's text was being adapted to specific theatrical needs, and as much in the possession of its players as of its author.

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