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Product Description When a new play was required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597, Shakespeare created The Merry Wives of Windsor, a warmhearted and spirited "citizen comedy" filled with boisterous action, situational irony, rich characterizationand the likes of Falstaff, Pistol, Mistress Quickly,and Justice Shallow. In his introduction and commentary, Craik examines a wide range of topics, including the play's probable occasion, its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history, with particular reference to the widely diverging 1623 Folio and1602 Quarto, and its quality as drama. In light of various topical, critical, and theatrical interpretations of the play, Craik pays particular attention to defining the literal sense, proposing some new readings, and evoking the many aspects of the stage business. Review T.W. Craik's edition of The Merry Wives is excellent ... can be recommended as one of the most scholarly, helpful, and authoritative texts so far to appear in the Oxford series.' The Review of English StudiesOne of the strengths of Craik's edition is his careful and subtle analysis of the construction of the play ... Professor Craik's close attention to structure and staging is particularly valuable in dealing with the conundrums of the last act in Windsor Forest ... The commentary to this edition is as careful and thoughtful as the introduction, and, in its scrupulous distinction between material accepted from earlier editors and new material, it shows a scholarly responsibility that is now positively oldfashioned. The commentary is particularly helpful on the double meanings which so many characters accidentally stumble into.' Durham University Journal'Craik is as good an advocate as one could wish for The Merry Wives, ... his disapproval of 'ironyobsessed' critics who are determined to deny it a happy ending is admirable' English Studies, Volume 72, Number 6, December 1991'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford Times About the Author T. W. Craik, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Durham.
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