The Fortunes Of Falstaff By J Dover Wilson
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Fortunes of Falstaff
Author | : J. Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1943-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521068307 |
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.'
The Fortunes of Falstaff
Author | : John Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
ISBN | : |
Fortunes of Falstaff
Author | : John Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1979-08-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521092463 |
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.'
The Fortunes of Falstaff
Author | : John Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Fortunes of Falstaff
Author | : John Dover 1881- Wilson |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013410833 |
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Stages of Play
Author | : Michael W. Shurgot |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874136142 |
Rather than arguing for a "unified response" among spectators, as many scholars do, the book argues that when the plays are performed on thrust stages, the audience's reactions are actually seminal to the plays' intended dramatic effects.