{"id":"01KG8B16G42097CNJAHZQ698V6","cid":"bafkreig5embunzmcppylrffa72znzdthlahfdvwfs365kiun5nruoni5iq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigt26n4yekpk2qcpnrupskigaa5nizvw7ee4ipkgl6k27pnidt4rm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0221.jpg","height":1778,"key":"pdf-page-1769806534357-25f88k6aaq3","label":"03_merry_wives_of_windsor_1905_page_0221.jpg","page_number":221,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":401060,"text":"Appendix 215\nThe Time-Analysis of the Play\nAs Mr. P. A. Daniel shows in his paper \" On the Times or Dura-\ntions of the Action of Shakspere's Plays \" ( Trans, of New Shaks.\nSoc. 1877-79, p. 124 fol.), it is impossible, as the play now stands,\nto make out any consistent time-division of it. The chief difficulty\nis in the confusion with reference to FalstafTs meetings with Mrs.\nFord, which he states as follows (cf. note on iii. 5. i above) : —\n\" The first meeting, which ends with the buck-basket, takes place\nbetween ten and eleven on one morning ; the second meeting is\ndetermined for the morrow of the first, and actually follows it ; but\nyet the invitation to it and its actual occurrence are fixed by the\nplay at an earlier hour of the same day as that on which the first\ntakes place ; and when it has thus got in advance of the first. Ford\nrefers to the first as being before it. And the confusion does not\nend here, for on the very day of the second meeting Ford refers to\nthat second meeting as having taken place on the * yesterday,' and\nthus the third meeting, which is on the night of the day of the\nsecond, is driven forward to the night of the day following it. . . .\n\"The chief error, then, lies in sc. v. of Act III.; that scene\nmust, I think, have been formed by the violent junction — I cannot\ncall it fusion — of two separate scenes representing portions of two\nseparate days. The first part of the scene — Mrs. Quickly and Fal-\nstaff — is inseparably connected with the day of Falstaff's first inter-\nview with Mrs. Ford ; the second part is as inseparably connected\nwith the day of the second interview. The first part clearly shows\nus Falstaff in the afternoon, just escaped from his ducking in the\nThames ; the second part as clearly shows him in the early morning\nabout to keep his second appointment with Mrs. Ford. Cut this\nactual scene v. into two, ending the first with Mrs. Quickly 's last\nspeech — ' Peace be with you, sir,' — and the main difficulty van-\nishes, and the only change required in the text of the Folio to make\nit agree with the previous scenes is the alteration of two tvords. In\nher first speech Mrs. Quickly says, * Give your worship good mor-","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:34.357Z","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"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:35.172Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:37.784Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}