Copy of parts of The merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1680.

Copy of parts of The merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1680.

Merry wives of Windsor

8 leaves

Includes part of Act III, scene v and Act IV, scenes i-v. These leaves were written to supply missing ones in a prompt copy of The merry wives taken from a third folio edition of Shakespeare's Works, and, like others in the Folger excerpted from the same volume, prepared for the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, ca. 1680. See R.C. Bald's article in PMLA, LVI, 369.

Written in the same hand as V.b.109.

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Formerly Folger MS 617.1

Ireland -- Dublin.

V.b.240

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