- The Merry Wives of Windsor, a play by William Shakespeare (c. 1597)
- "The Merry Wives of Windsor," by William Hazlitt in Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor; German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, an opera by Otto Nicolai (1849)
- "Merry Wives of Windsor, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)