Ioannes Falstaff

Ioannes Falstaff cum Doll Tearsheet in Boar's Head Tavern bibit: "Henry IV part II: actus II scaena 4" ab Henrico Fuseli pictum pro Pinacothecam Shakesperianam Boydell

Ioannes Falstaff, amicus principis Henrici (regis Henrici V futuri), est persona fabularum Gulielmi Shakesperii, qui eum primum in ludo scaenico historico Henry IV part I praesentavit, mox in Henry IV part II. Mors eius in Henry V nuntiatur. Eadem persona (sine cura chronologica) in comoedia The Merry Wives of Windsor reperitur. Post Shakesperium persona Falstaff usus est Iosephus Verdi in opera sua Falstaff.

Bibliographia

• Bloom, Harold, ed., Falstaff. Novi Eboraci: Chelsea House, 1992.
• Caldwell, Ellen M. "'Banish All the Wor(l)d': Falstaff's Iconoclastic Threat to Kingship in I Henry IV" in Renascence vol. 59 (2007).
• Cooper, Stephen. The Real Falstaff: Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War. Londinii: Pen & Sword, 2010.
• Doloff, Steven. "Falstaff's 'Honour': Homeric burlesque in I Henry IV (1597-8)" in Notes and Queries vol. 55 (2008).
• Grady, Hugh. "Falstaff: Subjectivity between the Carnival and the Aesthetic" in Modern Language Review vol. 96 (2001).
• Taylor, Gary. "William Shakespeare, Richard James, and the House of Cobham" in Review of English Studies vol. 58 (1987).
• Wilson, John Dover. The Fortunes of Falstaff. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1943.

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