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Author | : Stephen Cooper |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1844687740 |
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This historical study examines the life and military accomplishments of the medieval knight who inspired one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters. One of the most famous English knights of the Hundred Years War, Sir John Fastolf is widely thought to be a model for Shakespeare’s immortal character, Sir John Falstaff. In The Real Falstaff, historian Stephen Cooper examines the link in full, shedding light on his story as well as the declining English fortunes during the last phase of the Hundred Years War. Witnessing both the triumphs of Henry V, and the disasters of the 1450s, Fastolf was one of the last of the brave but often brutal English soldiers who made their careers waging war in France. Cooper retraces the entire course of Fastolf’s long life, putting special focus on his many campaigns. A vivid picture of the old soldier emerges and of the French wars in which he played such a prominent part. But the author also explores Fastolf’s legacy, his connection to the Paston family—famous for the Paston letters—and the use Shakespeare made of Fastolf’s name, career, and character when he created Sir John Falstaff.
Author | : Stephen Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Sir John Fastolf was one of the most famous English knights and military commanders of the Hundred Years' War, and is commonly thought to be a model for Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's greatest characters. This book examines the link in full.
Author | : ANDY. JOHNSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910839423 |
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Author | : Robert Barnabas Brough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Etching, British |
ISBN | : |
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"The plan of this work [is] ... to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"--Preface
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1501164139 |
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"Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal. Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged, Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime. Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character, and the book as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity"--Publisher's description.
Author | : John Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1979-08-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521092463 |
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Dr Dover Wilson examines Falstaff's role in the two parts of Henry IV and his relationship to the Prince. Like most other Shakespearean scholars he had accepted, Bradley's portrait as shown in The Rejection of Falstaff, until (as he writes) he 'began checking it with yet another portrait - that which I found in the pages of Shakespeare himself. As the result of much recent work on the two parts of Henry IV, a new Falstaff stands before me, as fascinating as Bradley's, certainly quite as human, but different; and beside him stands a still more unexpected Prince Hal. The discovery throws all my previous ideas out of focus.' As the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement wrote, Falstaff 'is no hero, as the romantics have tried to make him out, nor is he merely a typical and traditional stage-butt. But he is Falstaff riding for a fall; and when he takes his toss he is up again in still unconquerable effrontery and humour ... The Prince as we watch him through Dr Dover Wilson's eyes growing in grace, first in chivalry and then in justice, we do more than observe the making of a hero-king. We get to know a very lovable, faulty, generous, noble-minded young man; and a character in the play whose scenes are so far from being mere padding between Falstaff's that the whole is seen as a masterpiece of construction.'
Author | : Peter Corbin |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780719026935 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Antony Sher |
Publisher | : Nick Hern Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781848425675 |
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Now in paperback. The acclaimed account of researching and playing one of the greatest roles in English drama.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-08-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1451644485 |
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Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming. A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle (Joan of Arc), who becomes captain of the French, claims to be chosen by the Virgin Mary to liberate France. The English, however, consider her a sensual witch. Many of the English nobility remain, quarreling, at home. Once in France, some seek permission to fight each other there. Talbot and his son cannot prevail; the English defeat themselves by preying on each other. The authoritative edition of Henry VI, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play