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Copy of Merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1660.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Holland, Hu, active 1660.; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.; Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
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Title
Copy of Merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1660.
Uniform title
Merry wives of Windsor
Description
[2], 40 p.
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Holland, Hu, active 1660.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
Scope and content
With a sonnet by Hu. Holland (ca. 1660?). Halliwell-Phillipps thought this copy of the play was prepared for private theatricals. See his An account of the only known manuscript of Shakespeare's plays, 1843. See also Jaggard's Bibliography, 405; and Halliwell-Phillipps, Some account of the antiquities. Beal ShW 64.
Note
Sonnet by Holland listed in the Folger index of first lines. First line: Those hands, which you so clap't goe now and wring.

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Provenance
Warwick Castle MS.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1.49
Some account of the antiquities, coins, manuscripts, rare books, ancient documents, and other reliques illustrative of the life and works of Shakespeare, 49
Includes
Those hands, which you so clap't goe now and wring.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Poems.

Call number
V.a.73
Folger accession
cs1