{"id":"01KG8AYDBKYWG3DQN200KZESK4","cid":"bafkreihiai3lcgvbeupcy6vgkfpn5wabrexdeyebhbik3zovmgqk6zkjwm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreieye4sez3tuddzal32l52gbuoy3jowccxbtt2hi7h7rnnh736aq6a","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0019.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806443565-b360onq9tz","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0019.jpg","page_number":19,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":361995,"text":"Introduction 13\nit may not amount to such evidence as might be de-\nmanded toestablish some contested point of rehgious\nor legal or political opinion.\"\nThe date that I have assigned to the play (1599)\nplaces it between 2 Henry IV. and Henry V. That it\nwas written after 2 Henry IV. is evident from the fact\nthat Falstaff in that play was originally called Old-\ncastle, but not in this one. It has been urged that it\nmust have been produced before Henry V. in which\nFalstaff's death is recorded; but it is not necessary to\nregard the Merry Wives as an integral part of the his-\ntorical trilogy. If it was written at the request of\nElizabeth, the dramatist would not have hesitated to\nresuscitate the knight for her gratification. It is more\nprobable, however, that if, as Row^e asserts, it was her\nenjoyment of the two parts of Henry IV. that led her\nto *' command \" him to write a play showing Falstaff\nin love, and if she insisted on its being finished in a\nfortnight, the dramatist would have postponed the com-\npletion ofthe trilogy in order to do it.\nThe Sources of the Plot\nAmong the sources from which it has been supposed\nthat Shakespeare may have got some hints for the plot\nof the Merry Wives are two tales in Straparola's Le\nTredici Piacevoli Notte, and a modified version of one\nof these, under the title of \" The Lovers of Pisa \" in\nTarleton's Newes out of Furgatorie, 1590; the tale of\nBucciolo and Pietro Paulo in the Pecorone of Giovanni","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:03.565Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1084},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4N3KNPAGDJAVRPVWBA4","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AYDBF0S3PVT30VTY09FCW","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AYDCJ6HJ06B2T6J34KR5Z","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:03.891Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:06:03.113Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}