Language: English
Published in: 1602
Word count: 23,337 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Copyright: Public Domain
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.
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