UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » English » EN0444 » THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Model: EN0444
ISBN: 9780521293709
Authors: SHAKESPEARE
Publishers: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $1,245.00JMD
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
Reviews

This new edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor focuses at every point on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasizing 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..