‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ by William Shakespeare is a/an -

The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1597 and 1601 (probably near the earlier of these dates), that centres on the comic romantic misadventures of Falstaff.
- The play differs from Shakespeare’s other comedies of this period in that it is set not in an imaginary country but in Windsor and the small-town rural life of Shakespeare’s own day.
- Shakespeare’s ploy in this engaging comedy is to introduce the character of Falstaff, already a household name in London in the late 1590s, into a nonhistorical plot where he occupies a very different role from that of the Henry IV plays.

Source: Britannica.com