List of illustrations
List of tables
General editors' preface
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
The English comedy and the comedy of English
The comedy of language(s) and the Latin lesson
Translating: Italian into English - Falstaff's ancestry and the comedy of humours
Garter comedy: date, occasion and Falstaff's metamorphoses
Quarto and Folio: memorial reconstruction and acting version
Unconformities and comical satire
Structural unconformities and time gaps: three versions of Merry Wives
Critical attitude and stage life: the music of Merry Wives
This text: editorial procedures and conventions
Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor
App The First Quarto (1602)
Abbreviations and references
Abbreviations used in the notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works cited
Index