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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor.

Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Rudolf Bader.
Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions

Quarto (1602), Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Wiv/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]

Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (25/04/01)

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translations

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Deutsche Übersetzung Wolf Graf v. Baudissin [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/windsor/windsor.htm] (May 2002)

Le gaie mogli di Windsor, Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi: [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]

Le allegre comari di Windsor / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Italian Translation. (PDF-file) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-commedie.html]

Vrolijke Vrouwtjes van Windsor
Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

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sources

Lyly, Euphues, Endimion (excerpts) [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lylybib.htm]
Lyly, Endimion (excerpts) [http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/Best/ISShakespeare/LLLCourse/lyly1.html]

Plautus, Casina (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.cas.html]

The real Falstaff [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/henryv+1.html] (25/04/01)


not available:
Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie, 1590
Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession, Barnaby Riche, 1581
J. Rathgeb's Journal, (trans. in England as Seen by Foreigners, W. B. Rye, 1865
Letter from Sir John Levenson: The Governor of Dieppe in Trouble


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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]

c) reviews of productions

Strachan, Allan.
London Open Air 1999 (reviews)
[http://www.albemarle-london.com/oat-windsor.html]

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film versions


Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Falstaff dir. Pierre Cavassilas. (opera. Italy, 2001) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0312674] (June 2002)
Muntra fruarna i Windsor (Sweden, 1998) (TV) dir. Stina Ancker. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0137970]
Falstaff opera, Verdi. (USA 1993) (TV) dir. Brian Large [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0252427]
Falstaff opera, Verdi. (UK, 1982) (TV) dir. Brian Large [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0256018]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, (1982) (BBC, TV) dir. David Hugh Jones [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084325]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, (USA,1980) dir. Richard E.T. White [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081154]
Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, (Austria, 1965) dir. Georg Tressler [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059414]
Campanadas a medianoche / Chimes at Midnight (Spain/Switzerland 1965) The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff, dir. Orson Welles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059012]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, (UK, 1955) (TV) dir. Barrie Edgar, Glen Byam Shaw [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048372]
Merry Wives of Windsor, (UK, 1952) (1952) (TV) dir. Julian Amyes
Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Oper, (East Germany, 1950) dir. Georg Wildhagen [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0042695]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, (USA, silent 1910) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0221390]
Falstaff the Tavern Knight (UK, silent 1923) dir. Edwin Greenwood [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0221953]

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adaptations in literature

Titles from The Merry Wives of Windsor. [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/wives.html]
Boito, Arrigo. (1842-1918)
Falstaff (libretto for Verdi) Synopsis, libretto etc. in Italian. [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/opere-76.htm] page on Boito [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/librettisti-boito.htm]

Dennis, John. The Comical Gallant. (play) 1702.

Martin, Michelle. Pembroke Park, commented by Osborne, Laurie,
Romancing the Bard: [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]

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adaptations in music

Operas [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/] (in Italian)

Adam, Adolphe-Charles.
Falstaff (1856) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Balfe, Michael William.
Falstaff (1838) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Ditters von Dittersdorf, Karl.
The Merry Wives of Windsor, opera (1796) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Elgar, Edgar. (1857-1934)
Falstaff, symphonic study (1913) [http://www.elgar.org/3falst.htm] available at: [http://www.klassik-nachschlagewerk.de/falstaff_op_68_8824664.htm] (Sept. 2001)

Horn,
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor 1823. [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Nicolai , Otto.(1810-1849)
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor , opera (1849), libretto by Hermann Salomon Molsenthal [http://www.theater-wittenberg.de/texte/stuecke/weiber.htm]
Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Oper, (East Germany, 1950) dir. Georg Wildhagen [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0042695]

Papavoine (1720-1793),
Le vieux coquet ou Le deux amis (Merry Wives) , opera, 1761 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Ritter, Peter (1763-1846), 1794
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Salieri, Antonio.
Falstaff, osia Le tre burle (3.1.1799 Vienna), dramma giocoso, (Klangbeispiel) [http://www.jpc-klassik.de/5211425.htm]

Sullivan, Arthur.T
he Merry Wives of Windsor, incidental music (1874) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#merry_wives]

Verdi, Giuseppe.
Falstaff [http://www.orlandoopera.org/falstaff.html], Synopsis, libretto etc. [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/opere-76.htm]
Synopsis Los Angeles Opera [http://laopera.org/98-99/falstaffsynopsis.htm]
Verdi, Guiseppe / Arrigo Boito,
Falstaff (libretto) [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Verdi/Falstaff/libretto.html]

Falstaff opera, Verdi. (USA 1993) (TV) dir. Brian Large [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0252427]
Falstaff opera, Verdi. (UK, 1982) (TV) dir. Brian Large [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0256018]

Waughan-Williams, Ralph.
Sir John in Love (Merry Wives), 1929.

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paintings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated

Charles R. Leslie: Dinner Scene, "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; Frederick William Davis: Falstaff ; Hugh Thompson: The Merry Wives of Windsor at:
Titles from The Merry Wives of Windsor. [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/wives.html]

Leslie, C.R. "Falstaff and his friends" (picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)
Clint, C. "Falstaff and Mrs. Ford", (picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)



criticism

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 491-94. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-merrywives.html]

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in the classroom

see also on this site:
Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

Cummings, Michael.
The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Merry Wives [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topMerryWives.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/mwives.html] (25/04/01)

Shakespeare for teachers and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with lesson plans (Jan. 2002)

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deutsche Webseiten

Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Inhalt, Wurzeln, Quellen. [Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/windsor.htm]

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