The Merry Wives of Windsor The New Oxford Shakespeare

General Editors' Preface to The New Oxford Shakespeare
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of William Shakespeare
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

William Shakespeare

Callan Daviesis aLecturer in Seventeenth-Century Drama at the University of Southampton, working across early modern literary, cultural, and theatre history. He has been part of three UKRI-funded projects- Before Shakespeare,Middling Culture, andBox Office Bears -and has taught at several UK universities and as a Globe Education Lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. He has published a study of the early modern entertainment industry,What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620(2022), and also widely on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture. His work also includes an award-winning essay on bowling alleys in sixteenth-century London, an article exploring female playhouse ownership and cultural activity in Bristol, a study of Shakespearean bears and bear-keepers, and a book on Jacobean "strangeness" and drama. Sarah Neville is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University with a courtesy appointment in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital, and live media. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions, as well as an associate coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions.