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Merry Wives of Windsor, The

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noun

  1. a comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.


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The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew, are all pure Comedy; the rest, however they are call'd, have something of both Kinds.

From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) by Samuel Holt Monk

The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew, are all pure Comedy; the rest, however they are call'd, have something of both kinds.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by David Nichol Smith

This period would, I think, end with the lighter plays of Shakespeare, such as The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, and perhaps Hamlet.

From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

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