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The Real Falstaff

Author : Stephen Cooper
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844687740
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Real Falstaff written by Stephen Cooper and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE OF HEREFORDSHIRE

Author : ANDY. JOHNSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910839423
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE OF HEREFORDSHIRE written by ANDY. JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Falstaff

Author : Stephen Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Falstaff written by Stephen Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Life of Sir John Falstaff

Author : Robert Barnabas Brough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Sir John Falstaff written by Robert Barnabas Brough and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Falstaff

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501164155
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Falstaff written by Harold Bloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes “a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom’s imagination” (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—Shakespeare’s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters. Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare’s three Henry plays: Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads, him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him—some innocent, some cruel. Falstaff can be lewd, funny, careless of others, a bad creditor, an unreliable friend, and in the end, devastatingly reckless in his presumption of loyalty from the new King. Award-winning author and esteemed professor 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 this “poignant work” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare’s characters make. “In this first of five books about Shakespearean personalities, Bloom brings erudition and boundless enthusiasm” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and his exhilarating Falstaff invites us to look at a character as a flawed human who might live in our world.

The Oldcastle Controversy

Author : Peter Corbin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719026935
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Oldcastle Controversy written by Peter Corbin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of King Henry the Fifth

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life of King Henry the Fifth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Year of the Fat Knight

Author : Antony Sher
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848425675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Year of the Fat Knight written by Antony Sher and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. The acclaimed account of researching and playing one of the greatest roles in English drama.

Falstaff

Author : James A. Hepokoski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521280167
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Falstaff written by James A. Hepokoski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact, up-to-date guide to the history and construction of Verdi's last - and possibly greatest - opera.

Henry V

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Henry V written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry V, War Criminal?

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192838797
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Henry V, War Criminal? written by John Sutherland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Shakespeare loves loose ends; Shakespeare also loves red herrings.' Stephen Orgel Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania makelove? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, perfromance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd andentertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare. 'Few modern academics are doing quite so much as Professor Sutherland to connect the "common reader" with great books' Independent

Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare

Author : Fred B. Tromly
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144269906X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare written by Fred B. Tromly and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. While Shakespearean sons often act as their fathers' steadfast defenders, they simultaneously resist paternal encroachment on their autonomy, tempering vigorous loyalty with subtle hostility. Tromly's introductory chapters draw on both Freudian psychology and Elizabethan family history to frame the issue of filial ambivalence in Shakespeare. The following analytical chapters mine the father-son relationships in plays that span Shakespeare's entire career. The conclusion explores Shakespeare's relationship with his own father and its effect on his fictional depictions of life as a son. Through careful scrutiny of word and deed, the scholarship in Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare reveals the complex attitude Shakespeare's sons harbour towards their fathers.

Chimes at Midnight

Author : Orson Welles
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813513393
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Chimes at Midnight written by Orson Welles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the films inspired by Orson Welles's lifelong involvement with Shakespeare, the greatest is Chimes at Midnight (1966). It is a masterly conflation of the Shakespearean history plays that feature Falstaff, the great comic figure played by Welles himself in the film. For Welles, the character was also potentially tragic: the doomed friendship between Falstaff and Prince Hal becomes an image of the end of an age. To this epic subject Welles brings the innovative film techniques that made him famous in Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai,"and Touch of Evil. This volume offers a complete continuity script of Chimes at Midnight, including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakesperian sources, thus making the volume an invaluable guide to Welles as an adaptor and creator of texts. The first complete transcription of the continuity script of Chimes is accompanied by the editor's critical introduction on Welles's transformation of Shakespeare; a special interview with Keith Baxter, one of the film's principal actors, which discusses its production history; reviews and articles; and a biographical sketch of Welles, a filmography, and a bibliography.

Mrs. Shakespeare

Author : Robert Nye
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705523
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Shakespeare written by Robert Nye and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this humorous and bawdy fictional memoir, Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway reminisces about her famous husband seven years after his death.

The Book of Will

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Shakespearean Character

Author : Jelena Marelj
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350061395
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Character written by Jelena Marelj and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance examines how the extraordinary lifelikeness of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and self-conscious characters is produced through language. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, this book claims that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising from characters' pragmatic use of language in combination with the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to his audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. Challenging the notion of interiority attributed to Shakespeare's characters by many contemporary critics, theatre professionals, and audiences, the book demonstrates that dramatic characters possess anteriority which gives us the impression that they exist outside of- and prior to- the play-texts as real people. Jelena Marelj's study examines five linguistically self-conscious characters drawn from the genres of history, tragedy and comedy, which continue to be subjects of extensive critical debate: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Henry V, Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet. She shows that by inferring Shakespeare's intentions through his characters' verbal exchanges and the discourses of the play, the audience becomes emotionally involved with or repulsed by characters and it is this emotional response that makes these characters strikingly memorable and intimately human. Shakespearean Character will equip readers for further work on the genealogy of Shakespearean character, including minor characters, stock characters, and allegorical characters.

William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2

Author : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847601510
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 written by C W R D Moseley and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an overview of Shakespeare's life and career, the book summarises Elizabethan attitudes to History and Politics, concepts of the cosmos, theological issues such as Free Will and the Fall of Man, and the tensions that ultimately destroyed consensus on these matters. Discussion of expectations of different types of plays then precedes detailed analysis of Henry IV's structure, genres and literary strategies, and of the major themes it explores. The play is firmly placed in the sequence of history plays from Richard II to Henry V. A chapter examines fully the issues surrounding the Education of a Prince for rule, concluding with full exploration of the part played by Falstaff. The final chapters examine the conceptual and ideological implications of the play's languages and styles, and the career of the play, which, especially in Part 1, has been greatly successful in later ages when its original topicality is quite forgotten. There is an Appendix listing some extant History Plays, and copious explanatory hyperlinks.