Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique look into the early process of Shakespeare's writing and provides insight into the creative mind of one of the greatest playwrights in history. The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor offers a glimpse into the rough draft of this classic comedy, revealing the evolution of characters, plot, and language. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor Classic Reprint written by James Orchard Halliwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor When I first communicated the design which I had of altering this comedy of Shakespear, I found that I should have two sorts of people to deal with, who would equally endeavour to obstruct my success. The one believed it to be so admirable, that nothing ought to be added to it; the others fancied it to be so despicable, that any one's time would be lost upon it. That this comedy was not despi cable. I gosse'd for several reasons; First, I knew very well that it had pleas'd one of the greatest queens that ever was in the world, great not only for her wisdom in the arts of government, but for her knowledge of polite learning, and her nice taste of the drama, for such a taste we may be sure she had, by the relish which she had of the ancients. T7iis comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleas'd at the representation. In the second place, in the reign of King Charles the Second, when people had an admirable taste of comedy, all those men of extraordinary parts, who were the ornaments of that court, as the late Duke of Buckingham, my Lord Normandy, my Lord Dorset, my late Lord Rochester, Sir Charles Sidley, Dr. Frazer, Mr. Savil, Mr. Buckley, were in love with the beauties of this comedy. In the third place, I thought that after so long an acquaintance as I had with the best comic poets, among the ancients and moderns, I might depend in some measure upon my own judgment, and I thought I found here three or four extraordi nary characters, that were exactly drawn, and truly comical; and that I saw besides in it some as happy touches as ever were in comedy. Besides I had observed what success the character of Fal staff had had in the First Part of Harry the Fourth.' And as the Falstaff in the Merry Wives' is certainly superior to that of the Second Part of Harry the Fourth, ' so it can hardly be said to be inferior to that of the First. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The First Sketch of Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor written by James Orchard Halliwell and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It has been adapted for the opera on occasions.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor Edited with Notes written by William Shakespeare and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor[1] is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, also the location of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Though nominally set in the reign of Henry IV or early in the reign of Henry V, the play makes no pretence to exist outside contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It features the character Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who had previously been featured in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. It has been adapted for the opera at least ten times. The play is one of Shakespeare's lesser-regarded works among literary critics. Tradition has it that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written at the request of Queen Elizabeth I. After watching Henry IV Part I, she asked Shakespeare to write a play showing Falstaff in love.
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It has been adapted for the opera on occasions.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Merry Wives of Windsor 1602 written by William Shakespeare and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from the Introduction: Critical. It will hardly, I conceive, be demanded that one who has made himself responsible for the humble task of reprinting the first quarto of the Merry Wives should produce a full critical apparatus to that play or should discuss the many and varied problems of literary history that surround it. That is the business of whoever undertakes to edit the more or less authoritative version provided by the folio of 1623. On the other hand it may be reasonably expected of one who turns bis attention particularly to this despised quarto that he should at least make some endeavour to solve the perplexing but fundamental problem of the relationship of the two extant versions of the play. When I lightheartedly set out upon this quest I very soon found that it demanded a far more minute investigation of the texts than 1 had originally imagined. The broad outline of the facts seemed fairly clear and well established, but no general theory appeared capable of explaining in detail the phenomena presented. I was forced to construct for my own convenience a paralleltext edition, by cutting up and pasting into a notebook copies of the present reprint of the quarto and of one of the ordinary modern editions of the folio text. I then began writing detailed notes on the peculiarities of the quarto version, and at last found myself with a mass of material upon which it seemed possible to base something like a critical opinion. To present the final judgment, however, in an acceptable form apart from the analysis upon which it was founded appeared a difficult, if not impossible, task, and I was driven, after some hesitation, to revise my material and put it forward in the shape of a critical commentary on the text. It should, however, be carefully observed that this commentary concerns the quarto alone, and only in so far as it differs from the folio version. Points which are common to the two texts fall within the province of the general Shakespearian editor, a responsible post to which I have neither claim nor ambition. I ought to say a word as to the predecessors whose work I have used. Halliwell reprinted the quarto text in 1842, with critical apparatus. He assumed that the quarto represented a first sketch of the play and allowed no further discussion of the relation of the texts. His introduction is almost wholly devoted to a consideration of the play in general, and his notes contain little that can be of use to the modern student. There are two other writers, however, to whom I am seriously indebted. The first of these is Mr. P. A. Daniel, whose short but valuable introduction to the Griggs facsimile contained the first serious contribution to the discussion. The second is the late H. C. Hart, whose critical edition of the play (from the folio, of course) appeared under the aegis of that encyclopedic Shakespearian, the late W. J. Craig. This is, at almost every point, an admirable piece of work, and not only is the delicate question of the relation of the texts most intelligently discussed in the introduction, but many of the peculiarities of the quarto version also receive detailed attention and lucid criticism in the ample notes with which the edition is furnished. It will, I think, facilitate matters if, before turning to the discussion of the quarto, we consider briefly certain peculiarities of the folio. This, which derives from an altogether independent source, must be admitted to present a distinctly good, though demonstrably not perfect, text. The nature of the manuscript from which it was printed has never, I think, been determined. As a rule early printed editions of plays, when not manifestly corrupt, go back to manuscripts of two kinds: prompt copies—more or less official versions preserved in the playhouses j and private copies— transcripts made for literary circulation....
