ABSTRACT

I. Editions of (a) the Play, (b) Sources and Analogues (a) Q,i 1602. A Most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr

John Falstqffe, and the merrie Wives of Windsor, Entermixed with sundrie variable and pleasing humors, of Syr Hugh the Welch Knight, Justice Shallow, and his wise Cousin M, Slender, With the swaggering vaine of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym, By William Shakespeare, As it hath bene divers times Acted by the right Honorable my Lord Chamberlaines servants Both before her Majestie, and else-where. London. Printed by T(homas) G(reede) for Arthur Johnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne. 1602. (A 'bad* Quarto.)

Q2 (1619) reprinted the above. Fi 1623. Q,3 1630. Mfodern editions: Qi Facsimile: W. Griggs, 1881 (Sh, Quartos,

ed. P. A. Danel; W. W. Greg, 1910 (with valuable introduction); Reprints by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Sh.Soc. 1842; Gollier-Hazlitt, 1875. F i : Hart, H. G., Arden, 1904; Quiller-Gouch, A., and Wilson, J . D., Cambridge, 1921; Santvoord, G. Van, Tale, 1922.