The Merry Wives of Windsor (1918 film)

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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Directed by William Wauer
Written by William Shakespeare (play)
Produced by Jakob Beck
Production
company
Jakob Beck-Film
Distributed byJakob Beck-Film
Release date
  • February 1918 (1918-02)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

The Merry Wives of Windsor (German:Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by William Wauer. [1] It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor . [2] [3] As noted in the introduction of a recent edition of the play, the film "was , paradoxically enough, a silent film musical". [4]

Contents

Cast

In alphabetical order

References

  1. ↑ Wedel, Michael (2019-05-20). Pictorial Affects, Senses of Rupture: On the Poetics and Culture of Popular German Cinema, 1910-1930. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN   978-3-11-061355-1.
  2. ↑ Sammons p.87
  3. ↑ Sammons, Eddie (2004). Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-4446-9.
  4. ↑ Shakespeare, William (2009-08-26). Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-307-42454-9.

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