Germanische Mythen, Forschungen (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the representation." The information, it is probable, came originally from Dryden, who from his intimacy with Sir William Davenant had an opportunity of learning many particulars concerning our author. At what period Shakspeare new-modelled The Merry Wives of Windsor is unknown. I believe it was enlarged in 1603. See some conjectures on the subject in the Attempt to ascertain the Order of his Plays, Vol. II. Malone. It is not generally known, that the first edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor, in its present state, is in the valuable folio, printed 1623, from whence the quarto of the same play, dated 1630, was evidently copied. The two earlier quartos, 1602 and 16/19, only exhibit this comedy as it was originally written, and are so far curious, as they contain Shakspeare's first conceptions in forming a drama, which is the most complete specimen of his comick powers. T. Warton. chapter{Section 4PERSONS REPRESENTED, Sir John Falstaff. Fenton. Shallow, a country Justice. Slender, cousin to Shallow. Mr Pa e' ) te' S?1?1? dwelling at Windsor. William Page, a boy, son to Mr. Page. Sir Hugh Evans, a Wekh parson. Dr. Caius, a French physician. Host of the Garter Inn. Bardolph, Pistol, followers o/Talstaff. Nym, ) Robin, page to Falstaff. Simple, servant to Slender. Rugby, servant to Dr. Caius. Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Page. Mrs. Anne Page, her daughter, in love with Fenton. Mrs. Quickly, servant to Dr. Caius. Servants to Page, Ford, c. SCENE, Windsor; and the parts adjacent. chapter{Section 5MERRY WIVES WINDSOR. ACT I. SCENE I. Windsor. Before Page's House. Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans. Shal. Sir Hugh,1 persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it:2 if he were twenty si...