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Alice Leonard

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick in Early Modern Literature. She is currently working on a monograph, Error in Shakespeare. She has held a previous postdoctoral fellowship in Switzerland and has a PhD in English Literature.
Shakespeare's mother tongue: English and Latin collide in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare and Beyond

Shakespeare's mother tongue: English and Latin collide in The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Alice Leonard

“The Merry Wives of Windsor” was written around 1597, and is often considered to be Shakespeare’s most English play.