| 单词 | Falstaff |
| 例句 | Falstaff will never be decorous: and he is cast off. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When Milkman was dressed in World War II army fatigues with a knit cap on his head, they opened some Falstaff beer and began to talk about guns. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Annilese Miskimmon's production of Falstaff for Opera Holland Park updates Verdi's comedy to the years immediately after the first world war, opening not in a pub but a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Falstaff – review 2012-07-23T16:35:38Z “Falstaff” also never stops moving, its almost ceaseless action sometimes joyful, sometimes rueful, sometimes frantic. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “I cried. Playing Falstaff, playing a Falstaff set in Harlem? It doesn’t really get any better than this.” Hot Vax Summer? Falstaff and Shakespeare in the Park Are Ready. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Falstaff’s death is an absolute masterpiece of composition. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z A decade later, Ms. Carroll, still looking for challenging work, sought out the role of the conniving, overweight — and, obviously, male — Falstaff in a production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Washington. Pat Carroll, TV Mainstay Turned Stage Star, Dies at 95 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z They met the director of the Santa Fe Opera, who was enchanted with Trevor and cast him as Falstaff’s page. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z As a noble, Falstaff is an outlier, but “‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ is Shakespeare’s only play about common people,” Haber explained recently. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z My favorite scene comes at the end of Act II, when Falstaff arrives at Alice Ford’s house for what he thinks will be a secret rendezvous with her. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Still, he is best known for his Falstaff — he says that the opera character owes more to Verdi than Shakespeare — a role he has played in all kinds of productions. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Finally, there is “Falstaff,” Verdi’s comic farewell to opera. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z Here, Nannetta’s attendants simply blow bubbles over Mr. Maestri’s Falstaff, who is sitting up on the couch, enchanted. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Falstaff, pathetic in his grubby underwear, needs his red hunting coat and tweeds as much as he needs food and drink. Last Chance: ‘Falstaff’ at Metropolitan Opera, a Bundle of Energy 2013-12-26T21:36:22Z Until “Falstaff,” when I would go home at night after doing the role, and by 4 o’clock in the morning I’d miss him. After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The final performance of Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Salzburg Festival is on Wednesday; salzburgerfestspiele.at. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z At the very least, Falstaff is a crimp who fills up his muster book with "shadows" – men recruited, but never actually supplied – and allows draftees to purchase their release. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z In Mr. Sher’s hands, not a scintilla of Falstaff’s capacious humor and wit fails to land a laugh. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z When this unkempt Falstaff gets up, he is wearing floppy, grimy Long Johns, underwear he obviously never changes. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z Falstaff is a lifelong Harlemite; the Pages are Ghanaian; and the Fords are Nigerian. Ankara Print Dresses? These Aren’t Shakespeare’s ‘Merry Wives.’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z “Falstaff” is a special work in Elgar’s output. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But Falstaff's presumption in attempting to woo Mistresses Ford and Page transforms them into cheeky schoolgirls performing pat-a-cake, and Ford into a grotesque contorted by jealousy. The Merry Wives of Windsor 2010-08-20T20:30:00Z Falstaff boasts that in half an hour Alice will be his, explaining that she has already requested a tryst. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z In the final scene, Falstaff — looking truly ridiculous in a yellow jumpsuit and horns — slinks off after being tormented by irate townspeople disguised as fairies in the forest. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The Globe undertakes its first large-scale tour with Christopher Luscombe's very enjoyable 2008 production with Christopher Benjamin playing the heroically ludicrous Falstaff. This week's new theatre 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z Remember how Falstaff replaces Alice Ford’s lovely floral arrangement with a scrawny bouquet of his own? 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z But the challenges of "Falstaff" are overwhelming, and the al fresco setting, however pretty and pleasant on a summer eve, was not ideal acoustically. Pacific Opera Project's Forest Lawn 'Falstaff' has an offbeat charm 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Ford plans to lay a trap for Falstaff by visiting him under a false name. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z As Falstaff, he puts the noble grain of his voice to deliciously undignified use. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z With Mr. Hill based in Washington and Mr. Chioldi about to take a gig as Ford in Verdi’s “Falstaff” with the Utah Opera in Salt Lake City, the logistics were decidedly complicated. At the Opera, a Losing Battle Against Romance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Decades later, during the Vietnam War, Welles turned the Henry plays into “Chimes at Midnight,” making Falstaff the story’s fulcrum and stripping Henry’s battle against the French at Agincourt down to a harrowing, unheroic struggle. ‘The King’ Review: Once More Unto the Breach (but Why?) 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In his long and distinguished career, Bean has etched many memorable characters, but Trumbull is a scholarly Falstaff who deserves a comedy all his own. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But Shakespeare, beyond enhancing my life and my intellect and my love of language, also played a direct role in my life’s plot, in the style of Iago, or, perhaps, Falstaff. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z And Falstaff sentenced to a world of obloquy. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z For his part, Welles, whose image flickers throughout — as the beautiful young man he was and as characters like Kane, Othello, Hank Quinlan and Falstaff — remains both elusive and indelibly present. Review: ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Documents Orson Welles’s Last Film 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The signal event of the Muti weeks will be three concert performances of Verdi’s final opera, “Falstaff.” CSO goes back to the future for 2015-16 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Vocally, standards are uniformly good rather than remarkable, but then Falstaff is an ensemble opera rather than a star vehicle. Falstaff 2012-05-16T11:31:00Z Mr. Sher is never more delicious than when Falstaff is pouring forth streams of invective, whether he’s defending himself from accusations of cowardice or accusing Prince Hal of same. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Large though he looms, Falstaff is, of course, not the whole of “Henry IV.” ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Verdi saved his solitary horn calls for the last scene of Falstaff, but the echoes, ghostly echoes, are nevertheless there. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Award-winning actor Edward Gero stars as Falstaff in the Shakespeare play. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Carsen, whose updated production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” was a high point of recent Met seasons, wants us to consider the seedy, disturbing underside of the comic elements. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z ‘There was just one distraction…’ Rupert the horse with baritone Ambrogio Maestri in Royal Opera's Falstaff. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z His father’s intemperate nature is dour while Falstaff’s is far more congenial. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Adroitly poised between sincerity and mockery, laughter and tears, this eloquent “Falstaff” is a triumph for Mr. Muti. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Maestri, in chilling voice, delivers Falstaff’s defense of his girth as an embodiment of stature and potency, you feel sympathy for this laughingstock of a knight. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z He left school at 15 but later studied drama and spent a decade with the Royal Shakespeare Company, making a specialty of comic parts such as the buffoonish knight Falstaff. ‘Harry Potter’ actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65 2013-03-29T07:26:31Z Elizabethan food, the victuals that fattened Falstaff, will be covered in a talk on April 23, the Bard’s birthday, by Francine Segan, the author of “Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook.” Talking About Fowl and Fruits on the Bard’s Table 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But the director, Tomer Zvulun, who did such nice work in Wolf Trap’s “Falstaff” last summer and “Don Giovanni” the year before, inexplicably failed to create here a production that cohered. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend I think Bannon knows that he casts himself as a hero, even in this comparison to Shakespeare’s play, in which Falstaff is not a hero. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The other important news is that James Levine, who continues to recuperate from the illnesses and injuries that sidelined him for two years, is conducting this new “Falstaff.” In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z But last summer POP bit off more than it could chew attempting Verdi’s “Falstaff” at, of all places, the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z So it is not surprising that when Verdi wrote “Falstaff,” based on ’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” Nicolai’s took second place to it. Opera Review: Caught Between Two Men 2011-02-15T12:00:07Z “In the end, as the years go by, I see Falstaff as less and less guilty,” he said. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z In Falstaff, the Merry Wives conspire together to thwart the men, but Mistress Quickly – the unmarried contralto – is the linchpin. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Again, Wagner and Verdi might be drawn together here, as Falstaff, like Die Meistersinger, constantly looks back nostalgically into the musical past. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z The racket subsides a bit when the Eight Daoist Immortals appear, bearded, fat and eccentric, like so many Falstaffs. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z In the spring, Sher revealed his Falstaff to audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and cemented his status as one of the most accomplished Shakespearean players alive today. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “It wasn’t on my radar,” says Foucheux, who thought more about Falstaff. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z An exuberant if not always tidy account of the closing fugue from Verdi’s “Falstaff” brought the generous program of nearly two hours, performed without intermission, to a festive close. Music Review: Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-07T23:04:32Z Renaming it “Falstaff” and infusing it with warmth, the collaborators transformed it into one of the greatest operatic comedies. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z Fifteen years ago, Mr. Muti taught Falstaff to a young baritone named Ambrogio Maestri, whose hulking physique made him a natural for the part. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Or that Hal grasps in his doleful reply in the tavern scene — “I do, I will” — that he is to be the architect of Falstaff’s downfall? Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Falstaff is great—at “nothing,” in Shakespeare’s phrase—but a nothing which, as Falstaff himself knows and says, is “all the world.” Orson Welles's Mighty “Chimes at Midnight” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Just as striking, however, is the gentle manner in which Mr. Sher suggests Falstaff’s unease at his encroaching mortality. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Various versions of Iago’s famous “Credo” suggest that it was pondered “arduously,” she said, while “Falstaff” fans will be intrigued by drafts Verdi discarded, like the first version of the opera’s fugue finale. 5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z When Falstaff leaves, Alice enters to plan the midnight masquerade, assigning disguises to all. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s perennial fools who appears in the Henry plays. Idaho Shakespeare Festival keeps focus on casting 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z He may guzzle wine as if it’s water, but what really feeds the energies of Mr. Sher’s Falstaff are words, glorious words. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The four women decide to send Quickly to Falstaff with an invitation from Alice. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z To opera devotees who on principle believe that productions of a cornerstone work should be true to the original setting, I say get thee to Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Weeks after the Wells heist, local law enforcement received a call from Bill Rothstein, a kind of Falstaff in overalls. 'It's like a labyrinth': Netflix's new true crime doc takes on the pizza bomber 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Falstaff is supposed to be gross, but a grubby, fat body suit and clown's hair required extra effort to seem sympathetic. Pacific Opera Project's Forest Lawn 'Falstaff' has an offbeat charm 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Built around a captivating star turn by Jacob Ming-Trent as a perfect 21st-century clown of a Falstaff, this agreeably over the top “Merry Wives” moves to a Harlem block of African immigrant-owned businesses. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The baritone Massimo Cavalletti was vocally robust and fittingly short-tempered as Ford, who foolishly suspects his wife is actually interested in Falstaff’s overtures. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Chris Sirois sang with flair as Mr. Slender, amusing in an aria in which he imagines the indignant reaction of his faithful wife to Falstaff’s advances. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z If you look at the score of the end of “Falstaff,” it is so constructed — I wouldn’t say calculated, because that smells of something not natural. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z In that moment, the Wagnerian in Volle poked through, turning the humanity of Falstaff’s humbling into something sublime. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Locked inside the trunk were drafts and sketches for 12 operas written over nearly half a century, from “Luisa Miller” to “Falstaff,” as well as for works like the Requiem and “Four Sacred Pieces.” 5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z A natural on stage, and surprisingly light on his feet, he makes Falstaff a charming rapscallion and sings the music with consummate Italianate style. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z As Falstaff dresses for his rendezvous, Ford resolves to ambush Alice and Falstaff. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Instead the couple suggested, over many objections, that Falstaff should wear a “gigantic codpiece,” as it was described to me. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Of course, it's not just the themes but the parts that make these plays so memorable, and folklore has it that Falstaff, the old rogue played here by Desmond Barrit, was Elizabeth I's favourite character. This week's new theatre 2011-07-08T23:09:07Z But aside from Gero’s aptly debauched Falstaff — whose delivery of the nihilistic “What is Honor?” speech is the production’s most effective moment — only Fauntleroy’s Hotspur feels like a character who leaps from the page. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Falstaff's bar tab is a sight to behold, "but one half penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!" Pubs in books 2010-07-08T13:37:00Z In “Falstaff” the tricking and trapping of the libertine knight is masterminded by Alice Ford, one of the merry wives of Windsor — sung in Florence with lovely vivacity by the soprano Ailyn Pérez. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Those forlorn catcalls, loud but isolated, left barely a dent in the wall of cheers which greeted cast, chorus and conductor Daniele Gatti in a new staging of Verdi's Falstaff at the Royal Opera House. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z “Tell the Falstaff story,” James Gardiner says with a mischievous laugh. After Broadway heights of ‘Glory Days,’ back home with ‘Soon’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z This production opens in Falstaff’s lodging at the Garter Inn, a spacious room with oak-paneled walls, the impressive work of the set designer Paul Steinberg. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z This partnership reached towering heights with “Jerusalem,” a portrait of a latter-day Falstaff in rural England. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z “Falstaff” is an opera of ensembles, and some of these passages were a little scrappy. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z We see Mr. Maestri’s Falstaff lounging in a double bed, reading a paper, his hair a mess. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z Composed in 1799 and one of the first operatic incarnations of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Falstaff” loudly echoes Mozart, although the work lacks both the sublimity and profundity of Mozart’s operas. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z He added that Mr. Maestri could embody not only Falstaff’s ebullience but also his underlying sadness and melancholy. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Mr. Maestri said that as he has gotten older, he has found Falstaff — an impecunious knight whose gold-digging efforts to woo a pair of married women end in humiliation — more sympathetic. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Falstaff, short on cash, hatches a scheme: to woo Alice Ford and Meg Page, thus gaining access to their husbands' fortunes. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z When the blustery Falstaff calls for the owner of the tavern where he hangs out to bring more to drink, a couple of nurses appear with rolling trays. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Falstaff in “Henry IV, Part II”: I will turn diseases to commodity. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Sher’s Falstaff has in fact subtly changed: “I am old,” he says in a moment of stupefied lucidity, repeating the words as if in wonder that such a thing could befall him. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The women hide Falstaff in a laundry basket. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z He was well aware of the story of Verdi, whose masterpiece "Falstaff" premiered when the composer was 80. Final Sendak book a tribute to his brother 2013-02-04T12:39:13Z And honor, as Falstaff famously points out, will only buy you an early grave. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z Falstaff arrives looking ridiculous in an English riding outfit. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z In some ways “Falstaff,” Verdi’s final opera, is an ideal piece for a training program, a true ensemble opera. Music Review: ‘Falstaff,’ Part of Prelude to Performance at Kaye Playhouse 2012-07-15T21:49:41Z Even in England, “Falstaff” is not that often played compared with some of Elgar’s works, and if music lovers know the “Falstaff” story, it’s primarily through Verdi. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Speaking in Italian as his wife, Valeria, translated, Mr. Maestri recalled how Mr. Muti had urged him to learn “Falstaff” as thoroughly as he knew “Ave Maria.” A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Welles also directed himself with more assurance, especially in "Touch of Evil," where he plays a corrupt police captain, and in "Chimes at Midnight," in which he plays Shakespeare's larger-than-life rapscallion Falstaff. 'Magician' conjures up the life of Orson Welles in his own words 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Another character helpfully points out that Verdi’s “Otello” and “Falstaff” were written when the composer was nearing 90 — which, perhaps deliberately, is at least a decade off. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Act II Scene 1Quickly visits Falstaff to arrange a tryst between him and Alice, and tells him that Meg also fancies him. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z And when Lowrie's sardonic Falstaff shows us, for a change, he's no doltish dupe but a shrewd hustler who meets his match. Review: A wise Mistress Page and a well-rounded Falstaff shine in Seattle Shakes' 'Merry Wives' 2011-04-27T21:33:07Z The jolly, obscenely rotund ringleader of this band is, of course, Falstaff, a nobleman with a flagrant lack of morals who delights in splashing around the sewers of London. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Of course fatness has a comic history older than Falstaff, managed in different ways. Comedy gold: John Pinette's I Say Nay Nay 2012-12-28T11:13:32Z Mr. Gelb had several such successes this season, among them the director Robert Carsen’s new staging of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” which opened to acclaim in December. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Excess is considered funny, and the essential gluttony of a character like Falstaff is considered humorous. Are comedians funnier when they're fat? 2011-09-23T16:24:00Z Ming-Trent, though, pulls off the perhaps the most challenging assignment: satisfying the expectation for a larger-than-life Falstaff without pushing the predictable bombast button. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z This “Henry IV” may be cold-eyed about the world of realpolitik, but it values the warm-blooded life that courses within as much as Mr. Allam’s florid Falstaff does. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z The segue is perfect since the first lines are from Dr. Caius, who storms in upbraiding Falstaff for the havoc done to his home by the good-for-nothing Bardolfo and Pistola, Falstaff’s followers. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z And Christopher Benjamin has such a twinkle in his eye and a flourish in his gait that his Falstaff, despite lacking any discernible redeeming features, is a pleasure throughout. The Merry Wives of Windsor 2010-08-20T20:30:00Z Eloquent and self-aggrandizing, Falstaff proudly identifies with his stature. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z To Falstaff, his immensity is a sign of stature and potency. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z The audience may have loved the Fords' Good Housekeeping dream kitchen and a real horse that Falstaff rides into Windsor Forest, but these were only amusing gimmicks. Royal Opera's "Falstaff": Big knight on a big horse 2012-05-22T11:15:47Z Verdi embraced such alert shifts, even later incorporating them into the fabric of Italian works like “Otello” and “Falstaff.” Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z Haber thought that the comic Falstaff from “The Merry Wives of Windsor” was better suited for the company’s mostly amateur cast. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z After the bird left and Hanks arose, a fellow cast member whispered to Falstaff what had occurred, and without missing a beat, Hanks improvised a couple of lines referring to the incident. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Fergie selling access to Prince Andrew for cash is Falstaff exploiting his bond with the Prince. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z As the merry wives, Sarah Woodward and Serena Evans have a fine line in melodramatic over-acting every time Falstaff is "caught" in their company. The Merry Wives of Windsor 2010-08-20T20:30:00Z I could name five favorite versions of “Falstaff” alone. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z Verdi illustrates the character’s inner deliberation with several bars of orchestral music during which Falstaff, whose last date with Alice ended in humiliation, fails to take the bait. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z When Falstaff recognises Bardolph, everyone unmasks, except a veiled couple who step up to be married. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Small wonder that Verdi — who also adapted “Macbeth” and fashioned “Falstaff” out of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “Henry IV” — contemplated taking on “Hamlet” but ultimately changed his mind. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Each opera, almost without exception, was better, bolder, more masterly and more personal than the one before, right until the end, when, in his 70s, he wrote his final masterpieces, “Otello” and “Falstaff.” ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z But it’s precisely because he feels the quiet approach of death that Falstaff cannot bring himself to give up his bawdy pleasures. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z That Verdi was swept up in building the home while composing “Falstaff” struck the Italian director Damiano Michieletto when he was envisioning a new production of this comic masterpiece for the 2013 Salzburg Festival. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Playing Falstaff in his own film, Welles dramatized his own character, his own genius, his own afflictions, with an agonized self-awareness. Orson Welles's Mighty “Chimes at Midnight” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The hearty baritone Robert Kerr began his career in musical theater, and that experience showed in his performance of Falstaff. Music Review: ‘Falstaff,’ Part of Prelude to Performance at Kaye Playhouse 2012-07-15T21:49:41Z Seattle Shakes co-founder Terry Edward Moore directs Falstaff and friends in this comedy opening Friday. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-13T23:42:04Z "Falstaff is one of Shakespeare's most astonishing creations," Sir Anthony said. Mark Strong honoured for Miller role 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In the climax of the Windsor Park scene, Verdi’s Falstaff is supposed to be pinched and poked by townspeople pretending to be goblins. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z But rather than belabor plot similarities or inconsistencies, it is worth viewing this as an opportunity to see two late masterpieces of a great composer, like back-to-back performances of Verdi’s “Otello” and “Falstaff.” Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z But also, really, Falstaff has acted so completely without faith. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z His accounts of the overture In the South, the Introduction and Allegro for strings, and the symphonic study Falstaff are also hard to beat. Adrian Boult: Complete EMI Elgar Recordings – review 2013-06-20T19:15:01Z The Merry Wives of Windsor Archway Company stages Shakespeare’s comedy about the scoundrel Falstaff’s attempts to scam two married women. The week ahead in L.A. theatre, Jan. 14-21: 'Shakespeare in Love,' 'Cabaret' and more 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Though many of the scenes at court and on the field are muscularly staged, the play explodes into vivid life whenever we return to Falstaff and his unruly friends. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z I didn't see his Falstaff, but everyone who did told me it was wonderful. Olivier awards: Roger Allam reigns, Sheridan Smith shines ... but is it the end of an era? 2011-03-14T13:39:21Z “Honor,” he scoffed, and noted Falstaff’s speech on the topic from “Henry IV, Part I” — a highlight of “Cry Havoc!” for him. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Alice is left alone to receive Falstaff, who declares his passion for her. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z The American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn made his company debut in December as Pistola in the wonderful new production of Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Opera Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Staging Still Elicits Sighs and Awe 2014-01-15T22:43:27Z LBJ, I suggest, is the most Shakespearean of American presidents, a figure worthy of Lear and Falstaff, Caesar and Macbeth. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Seeing this “Falstaff” was like entering a time warp. 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z This is where Alice tries to teach Falstaff a lesson by inviting him to what he thinks will be a dinner rendezvous while her husband is away. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z His Falstaff, a Rabelaisian mountain of self-regard and corruption, should be anchored in a potent tale of casting aside foolishness in favor of duty. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In the same “Falstaff,” Ms. Pierson recalled, the soprano made an entrance on horseback. Thomas H. Connell III, Longtime Met Stage Manager, Dies at 67 2010-04-28T03:34:00Z If so, Falstaff, on whom audiences dote, gets his comeuppance. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Michieletto again has a brilliant solution: Mr. Maestri’s Falstaff, cowering on the couch, imagines his own funeral taking place. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Falstaff, the amiable fat man of great appetite, is of course the primary Fool. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z The mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, fresh from her performance on Friday as Meg Page in Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Metropolitan Opera, brought rich sound and coolly seductive allure to the songs in which Zefka appears. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Verdi was pushing 80 when he finished his final masterpiece, “Falstaff.” Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z Overall, when it comes to theatrical flair, captivating costumes, stage antics and imagination, there are not many shows on Broadway to rival the Met’s new “Falstaff.” In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z Falstaff, as you may remember, was a vain rogue said to be Shakespeare’s own favorite character. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z But, with some regret, he couldn’t help enjoying himself, due to music and lyrics “that could get Falstaff karaoke-ing.” Essential Arts & Culture: Frida as opera, Julius Caesar continued, Taylor Mac's day-long songfest 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z In fact, his rotund stomach is created before our eyes: having helped Falstaff consume an enormous lunch, Pistol and Bardulph pack away the giant tablecloth by stuffing it under his shirt. Falstaff 2010-09-06T21:30:00Z But when Mr. Maestri’s gigantic Falstaff finally stands up, he’s a scraggly, pathetic sight in his grimy long johns. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z With his shin-length shorts and virtual reality goggles, chatting with the audience about a pandemic spent watching Netflix and eating snacks, Ming-Trent’s Falstaff is more of a clown than a menace. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Merry Wives,’ Now in South Harlem 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z “Not only did our script contain references to Falstaff as a fat man — I counted eight at the time,” Burke recalled, “Jack had even written a production number called ‘Fat Man Jump.’ A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Are there particular moments of “Falstaff” that you think show Elgar at his best? Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z In the opening moments, a drunk and reclining Falstaff had a bird land on his bloated stomach. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z If he didn’t quite mine the depths of Falstaff’s damp, wounded pride after he has climbed out of the Thames at the beginning of the third act, he commanded the stage throughout with balletic grace. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z Notice also that Henry V, in which Falstaff is reported as dying, precedes The Merry Wives, in which he is very much alive. Sherlock Holmes Now Available For All Your FanFiction Needs 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The noted British conductor Richard Farnes, who was music director of Opera North in England for 12 years, led this “Falstaff” in his Met debut, with mixed results. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z As the show develops, though, it becomes increasingly clear that Falstaff is merely the most grotesque version of the self-serving characters in the world of these plays. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z The scene ends with Falstaff unceremoniously tipped into the Thames; but one senses that almost anything could have happened. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z In the final scene of Falstaff, those calls from unseen horns suggest spaces and events beyond the visible. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z His Falstaff, a merry figure of debauched corpulence, was sculpted out of an immense quarry of colorful words. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z At the end of “Falstaff,” Alice Ford tells her co-conspirators that when the farce in the woods is finished, “ci smaschereremo” — “we will unmask” — to come together in a spirit of final celebration. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z That’s Falstaff, a man who never lived through anything that, in the retelling of it, he couldn’t tweak, distort and invert to his own greater glory. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z Falstaff hides, and it becomes apparent that Ford really is approaching. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Like Verdi’s masterly “Falstaff,” which shares its continuous texture, “Fanciulla” is not easy to grasp on first hearing. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z The world’s leading Falstaff, Ambrogio Maestri, turned in a witty and agile performance, one matched by the rest of the exquisite ensemble cast. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Audiences saw it only sporadically; almost everyone who wrote about it described an uneven “transitional” work, a troubled experiment on the eve of the composer’s final masterpieces: “Aida,” “Otello” and “Falstaff.” ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In Shakespeare's dramas, Falstaff pays for his company's initial costs out of his own pocket and then tries to raise a loan to finance his venture on the eve of battle. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z In the first act of “Falstaff” the energy of the scoring never wavers as the jovial plotting of the “merry wives” gives way to an aching love duet before seamlessly turning back again. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z Only on the opening night of “Falstaff” did Mr. Levine’s performance lack a little rhythmic definition. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z There aren't that many belly laughs, though, partly because Charles Johnston, as Falstaff, doesn't sport the customary voluminous prosthetic. Falstaff 2010-09-06T21:30:00Z His face beaming red with booze under an unruly mass of gray curls, Falstaff manipulates both his lowers and his betters with the artfulness of his tongue, easily the nimblest part of his body. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The overwhelming attribute of Sher’s portrayal was the lucidity he brought to Falstaff’s fecund wit. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z A splendid cast is headed by the powerhouse Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri who simply owns the role of Falstaff. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z Rebellious Hotspur is, after all, the essence of the honor that Falstaff dismisses as mere “air.” Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The dual portrayals offer a robust argument in favor of Harold Bloom’s assertion that Falstaff is the most human character Shakespeare created. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of fat-shaming in Verdi’s “Falstaff,” but the opera has never really been a candidate for revision or cancellation, probably because the victim of those insults refuses to see himself as one. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Waltz was recently working on a scene in which the conniving Mistress Quickly offers Falstaff a letter intended to lure him to a second rendezvous — in actuality, a trap — with the married Alice Ford. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z "He may be a figure of fun, but Falstaff shows us that incentives matter": well, that's one way of reading the play. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z It involved arts camp, a shirtless Othello, and a reckless decision that I didn’t regret for an instant—and which Falstaff would have understood. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z But more than anything, it is Falstaff’s relish for language — his unstemmed and unstemmable gift for elaborate prevarication, for colorful excoriation, for creative ingratiation — that Mr. Sher brings to buoyant life. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In the first scene, Purves’s Falstaff is shown not as the usual gorging grotesque in a fat suit, but as a careful master chef, sensitively relishing his creations — and with, at best, a dad bod. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Like much in this movie, Falstaff is at once familiar and scarcely recognizable. ‘The King’ Review: Once More Unto the Breach (but Why?) 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, clearly having a ball onstage as Mistress Quickly, received exit applause for her uproarious scene with Falstaff, in which she flashed some leg and flaunted a lot of plumpy tone. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s early in the year, but it’s already the year of “Chimes at Midnight,” Orson Welles’s mighty adaptation, from 1965, of Shakespeare’s plays featuring the colossal character of Falstaff. Orson Welles's Mighty “Chimes at Midnight” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Though Verdi’s Falstaff clings to the trappings of aristocracy, he is a deluded, debt-ridden and comically pathetic character. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z The festival, classical music’s most storied annual event, will stage two operas based on works by William Shakespeare: “Macbeth” and “Falstaff,” both by Verdi. Amid Global Turmoil, Salzburg Festival Plans a Summer of Reflection 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “I told him I was playing Falstaff in ‘Henry IV,’ ” he says. After Broadway heights of ‘Glory Days,’ back home with ‘Soon’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z If Mr. Levine can settle the performance into a more solid rhythmic groove, this “Falstaff” will enter the annals of opera history. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z The production kicks off a two-week festival, A Summer of Shakespeare, which will also include a staging of Salieri’s “Falstaff,” a semistaging of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and a concert, “Songs and Sonnets.” Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ Reset in New York 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z At the centre of it all is Falstaff and no one would deny that Maestri fits the bill. Royal Opera's "Falstaff": Big knight on a big horse 2012-05-22T11:15:47Z His Falstaff, not only wittily acted and fully formed, was astonishingly well sung. Giuseppe Taddei, Latecomer to the Met, Dies at 93 2010-06-04T05:43:00Z Henry IV, Part 1 Intimate production of Shakespeare’s historical drama about Henry Bolingbroke, his wayward son Hal, the scoundrel Falstaff, et al., features onstage seating. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Aug. 13-20: 'Hamilton,' 'Henry IV, Part 1' and more 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The mugging and flight of Falstaff is flaccid: the scared fellow strolls around the corner from his attackers as if he's playing peekaboo. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z My favorite occurs in Act II, when Ford and an improbable number of extras pour into Alice’s buttercup-yellow kitchen in search of Falstaff. Last Chance: ‘Falstaff’ at Metropolitan Opera, a Bundle of Energy 2013-12-26T21:36:22Z Unfortunately, the Falstaff part of the story is not, as it should be, more dangerous. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Merry Wives,’ Now in South Harlem 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z One gentleman plays the piano softly, including snippets of “Falstaff” and tunes from other Verdi operas. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Mistress Quickly arrives with a new proposition: Alice will meet Falstaff in Windsor Park at midnight. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z "What did he feel when he suddenly discovered, say, Falstaff landing on his paper?" Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z In the title role of Barrie Kosky’s staging of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” Christopher Purves was also different than the norm, at least at the start. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Maestri, a renowned Falstaff, has played the role in 19 new productions so far; he will sing it in a Metropolitan Opera premiere production opening in December. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Falstaff appears in both parts of “Henry IV” as comrade in debauchery to Prince Hal and, later, as a royal pariah. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Shakespeare probably intended audiences to understand Falstaff as a captain – certainly the playwright's historical sources portrayed him that way. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z And when Mison assumes power as Henry V, he implies that the dismissal of Falstaff exacts its own personal cost. Henry IV Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-28T17:03:27Z He has sung dozens of small comprimario parts — the character roles of opera — but also starred in Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” and Verdi’s “Falstaff.” After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z A 15-year-old horse called Rupert is making his opera debut at the Royal Opera House, in a new production of Falstaff as part of the . VIDEO: Horse makes opera debut in Falstaff 2012-05-14T23:16:45Z While Mr. Tennant’s television fame may make him the nominal marquee attraction for the cycle, the main event arrives in the “Henry IV” plays, featuring Mr. Sher as the “fat knight” Falstaff. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The opera is presented as his dream, as he imagines that he is again performing his signature role of Falstaff. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z "Banish plump Jack and banish all the world," cries Falstaff, to which Mison replies, "I do" in the voice of his father and then "I will" in his own steely register. Henry IV Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-28T17:03:27Z “Some people show up expecting the caricature of Falstaff,” he said. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Yet this unappeased appetite for adulation made him, if not a creative force, an instigator of creativity — like Falstaff, the cause of wit in others. Jay Landesman, Beat Writer and Editor, Dies at 91 2011-02-27T03:50:33Z Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff received a richly detailed performance. BBCSO/Andrew Davis 2010-10-11T22:01:00Z Soon, maskers disguised as supernatural creatures arrive and torment Falstaff, demanding that he repent. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z What will matter for most people is Hal and Hotspur and their dads, Justices Shallow and Silent, and Falstaff. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z Political humor, always a strong suit of Siguenza's, is mixed in with Shakespearean rants, including Falstaff's famous meditation on the nature of honor. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “Chimes at Midnight” stars Welles as Falstaff in a story cobbled together from several Shakespeare plays. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The King’ and ‘Farming’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Falstaff’s intricate wit is perhaps better suited to the kind of textual explication Sher specializes in. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He was happy to describe his own output as “tall tales, fibs, lies, whoppers” — a penchant that explains his attraction to the vainglorious, less than truthful hero of “Falstaff.” Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And there is Orson Welles as Falstaff, and Falstaff is grovelling for Henry V. He’s banished. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The test of a “Falstaff” is the effect of the great final ensemble fugue; here the sequence was pleasant rather than cathartic. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z There are sitcom stars who could play Shakespeare’s most durable character, Falstaff, who popped up in “Henry IV,” Parts 1 and 2, and “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” What if your favorite TV sitcom actors starred in Shakespeare roles? The dying Falstaff, according to Shakespeare, though beyond the action of Verdi's drama, babbled "of green fields" on his death bed. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z Stenciled on the wall above them, in squashed, lowercase Falstaff font is "Cairo," the name of the multipurpose arts space and record label inside. Capitol Hill's Cairo presents 'Vibrations' festival 2011-08-16T23:28:06Z Falstaff is terrified by the incantation of the 'Queen of the Fairies'. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Hal prefers to roister and rut — we first meet him in bed with three others — in the company of Falstaff and his fellow debauchees in a tavern in Eastcheap. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Still, you never doubted that he was Verdi's Falstaff. Pacific Opera Project's Forest Lawn 'Falstaff' has an offbeat charm 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Visible behind him was an antique poster advertising a Paris-Wales train route, and another for a production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” in Milan, in which he played the jovial title role. Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Through the entirety of the report, Trump is observed to lie, at almost every moment, like Falstaff telling Hal how many thieves he fended off. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z “When you can sing it perfectly without thinking, then you can start doing the real ‘Falstaff,’ and enjoying yourself,” he said, summing up his instructions from Mr. Muti. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Tom Hanks was playing Falstaff in “Henry IV” outdoors in Los Angeles. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “I think of composers I love — whether Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ or Beethoven’s scherzos, or even those weird moments in Mahler where there’s humor,” Adams said. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Sir Antony, whose performance as Falstaff was honoured last month at the London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, played the Fool to Michael Gambon's King in 1982. Sir Antony Sher to play Lear for RSC 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z While I disagree — presumably as audiences who still laugh at Falstaff or the great silent film comedies would — all art is the product of its time and place. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Try the sunset of “An Alpine Symphony,” or the fantasy from “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” or “Don Juan” — here more of a Falstaff, but without the jokes. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z There is lots of attention to dark orchestral detail, and Gatti seemed keen to underline that Falstaff is the work of a composer who knew his Wagner. Falstaff 2012-05-16T11:31:00Z Falstaff’s declamations were magnificently delivered by the baritone Nicola Alaimo: In the first act the clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets joined with him in saluting his splendid belly. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z They drive Caius away and Falstaff advises his men to steal more carefully. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z Mr. Hassell, whose dark good looks bespeak a natural gravity, manages this transition effectively, hinting at a growing disapproval of Falstaff in the delightful scene in which they playact an encounter between prince and king. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z This musical Falstaff would mark his Broadway debut. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z "One of my role models is Giuseppe Verdi, who wrote his last opera, Falstaff, when I think he was 88," he said. Terrence McNally ready for a break after long year 2010-04-02T13:35:00Z “You have to think that you’re in your own osteria — and enjoy. Because if you enjoy, the audience will enjoy, too. And that is everything in ‘Falstaff.’ ” A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z What he lifts is, of course, pungent, especially in the case of Ignatius, who shares with Shakespeare’s Falstaff not just an oversized body and ego but a great gift for lyric vituperation. Review: Nick Offerman as a Giant of New Orleans, Resized 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z These are the plays, after all, that include those immortal, oppositional forces of braggadocio, Falstaff and Hotspur. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Verdi’s comedy “Falstaff,” by contrast, is teeming with action, and the task of the director — no less difficult — is one of traffic control. Last Chance: ‘Falstaff’ at Metropolitan Opera, a Bundle of Energy 2013-12-26T21:36:22Z It's also a drama about an old England that, like Falstaff himself, is riddled with ills, in decline and in urgent need of rebirth. Henry IV parts one and two 2010-07-15T20:29:00Z "Carsen has a musical grasp of the piece...and he understands that Falstaff is more than a romp," wrote Martin Kettle in The Guardian. Royal Opera's "Falstaff": Big knight on a big horse 2012-05-22T11:15:47Z At the end of the play’s first part, a chastened Falstaff proclaims that he will “purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.” ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z There are not a lot of Falstaffs that convince. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z As Sen. Falstaff, whose plot to woo and fleece the Windsor wives gets foiled, OSF veteran David Kelly oozes homophobia and corruption while raking in the guffaws. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z Act III Scene 1Outside the Garter, a drenched Falstaff consoles himself with wine. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z John Falstaff appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. Ian McKellen to play Falstaff in Shakespeare adaptation Player Kings 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Even if you don’t know the plot of this lesser-known Shakespeare comedy, you may recognize its central character, Falstaff, as one of the greatest comedic roles in the classical theater canon. 6 must-see shows in Seattle this fall 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z It was “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which was created because the fans liked the character of Falstaff. Q&A: ‘Barbie’ filmmaker Greta Gerwig on art, commerce and embracing the mess 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z He serves as principal guest conductor of Munich’s Bavarian State Opera and will be on the podium for the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s “Falstaff” starting Sunday. Meeting Muti at age 10, Rustioni knew he wanted to conduct 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z For him, his career high came as Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, on stage in Stratford. Leslie Phillips obituary: The comedy Casanova who made it to Hogwarts 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The actor will play John Falstaff, a character he has never portrayed despite appearing in a huge number of Shakespeare plays throughout his life. Ian McKellen to play Falstaff in Shakespeare adaptation Player Kings 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Majestic white swans float in the Avon River, not far from Falstaff Street and Anne Hathaway Park, named for the playwright’s wife. Shakespeare or Bieber? This Canadian City Draws Devotees of Both 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z No doubt Vin got extra points from my Mom when he would weave into his play-by-play a reference to a Dylan Thomas poem or compare, for example, David Wells to Shakespeare’s Falstaff. 'Like having God Almighty doing play by play': Our readers remember Vin Scully 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Ming-Trent, so wonderfully bombastic as Falstaff in the Public Theater’s “Merry Wives,” is sort of given the keys to the theater by the “Midsummer” director. Review | This is some slim stuff for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to be made on 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Warner returned to Stratford in 2007 for the first time in more than 40 years to play Sir John Falstaff in the Courtyard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2. Titanic and Omen actor David Warner dies at 80 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z “From the first opera going to `Falstaff’ and the Four Sacred Pieces is an entire arc without interruption,” Muti said. Muti’s legacy: respect composers, reject revisionists 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Just around the corner from the other three restaurants, and not to be confused with Le Falstaff around the Bastille area. Exploring Samuel Beckett’s Paris 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z With every part he played, Sher confronted a little more of himself, learning to draw on painful memories to master Falstaff, Leontes and Macbeth. Sir Antony Sher: A giant of the stage 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The bar, renamed Eddie’s, started with cold Falstaff beer and sandwiches. A New Orleans restaurant nearly lost to COVID-19 comes back 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z These dreadful Republicans are all Falstaffs, trampling the concept of honor, blowing it off as a mere airy-fairy word, not worth sacrificing anything for, not worth defending your country for. Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Blood 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “This is a performance not to be missed,” I wrote, adding at the end of the review that “Trumbull is a scholarly Falstaff who deserves a comedy all his own.” Appreciation: Orson Bean's emails to this critic reveal the chatty charm that made him so beloved 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Many Australians, even climate scientists, dismiss Mr. Kelly as a political Falstaff, outrageous if powerless. As Australia Burns, a Climate-Change Denier Rallies the Troops 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Just as episodes of “The Brady Bunch” typically ended with a moral, “Merry Wives” concludes with Falstaff understanding the error of his ways. ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ gives the Folger Theatre a groovy send-off — for now 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z That is, of course, unless you’ve embraced the futility of the situation, preferring instead to conserve energy like the languorous Falstaff from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2.” That rust on your shower head? It's a $6-billion problem for the Navy, cruise ships and more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Except that Bannon does not see Falstaff as a man scorned, not in the slightest. Review: In 'American Dharma,' Steve Bannon gleefully reflects on the election of President Trump 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Dr. Bloom’s affinity began at age 12, when Falstaff rescued him from “debilitating self-consciousness,” and he more than lived up to his hero’s oversize aura in person. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z When the ailing king sends word he wants to see his son, it is Falstaff who persuades Hal to go. Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Obstinate young Prince Hal ascends to the English throne as Henry V under the tutelage of the wily Falstaff. Virtually every film coming out this fall 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Beginning with his 1964 staging of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” his productions drew consistently large audiences to the Metropolitan Opera in New York over the next 40 years. This week’s passages 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z A setting of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” titled “Falstaff,” proved a success, and still gives delight today, but “Il Mondo Alla Rovescia,” the comedy of inverted gender roles, discomfited the Viennese public. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The King, Hal, and Falstaff will be played by women as women. From Shakespeare to kids’ shows, here are outdoor theater shows you’ll be seeing around Puget Sound in summer 2019 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Determinations to be a different kind of king notwithstanding, Hal finds himself preparing to invade France, and he is keen to have the experienced if unconventional Falstaff with him to watch his back. Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Okinawa was a fever dream of mosquitoes and Falstaff beer. “Do Not Stop” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “Falstaff,” like Shakespeare’s character, is red-blooded and full of life. David Austin, plant breeder who restored fragrance and romance to the rose, dies at 92 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Falstaff lay unmoving on a bench, eyes closed, so Prince Hal tried to rouse him by hurling walnuts at him. Et tu, raccoon? How wildlife can steal the scene at Shakespeare in the park 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z And last but by no means least, Tom Hanks takes his final bows as Falstaff in “Henry IV.” Weekend Picks for June 28-July 1: Minnelli and Feinstein, Pacific Opera Project and more 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Before we meet either Falstaff or Hal, we spend a bit of time with his father, King Henry IV, England’s monarch. Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Falstaff, beer that satisfies your taste for living. “Do Not Stop” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z When not playing dead on the battlefield or scheming for glory by killing an already dead man, Hanks’ Falstaff offers piercing ironic commentary on such concepts as honor and valor. Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater and a 'Henry IV' worthy of applause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Inspired, Hanks’ Falstaff roused to life and improvised about birds in blank verse, Linklater said, talking about “the dove of peace on Noah's Ark” before working his way back to his original line. Et tu, raccoon? How wildlife can steal the scene at Shakespeare in the park 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Falstaff, again without quotation marks, is an Italian bank executive. ‘Viva Verdi,’ Say Fans With Very Verdian Names 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Sullivan has chosen to highlight Falstaff's exploits by condensing both parts of "Henry IV" into a single production, which will be staged outdoors at the Japanese Garden on the Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles campus. First tickets to see Tom Hanks live in 'Henry IV' go on sale Monday 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Falstaff will get the Tom Hanks treatment when the actor stars in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of "Henry IV," the center is expected to announce Monday. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson will perform 'Henry IV' at the VA campus 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The fluster of lies Hanks’ Falstaff employs as a shield against rejection is touchingly pulled off. Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater and a 'Henry IV' worthy of applause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z His final performance was July 8, 2017, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he played Falstaff back to back in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” parts one and two. Footlight Awards: The best and most notable in Seattle theater in 2017 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Let alone a black actor as Falstaff in all three Shakespeares?’ Northwest actor G. Valmont Thomas, beloved in old and new stage roles, dies at 58 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z These are not the first sheep to appear at the Met - a previous production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” used them as well. Coloratura hits new high in Ades opera 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He is a Falstaff without the humour or the self-awareness, a cowardly, bullying Richard III without a clue. The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office | Observer editorial 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Credit Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles for mirroring the fearlessness of Hotspur, the inimitable swagger of Falstaff and the well-placed confidence of Hal. Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater and a 'Henry IV' worthy of applause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z This was a direct – and surely knowing – lift from a bit in The Merry Wives of Windsor, where Falstaff is covertly transported in what was then known as a buck basket. If Arsène Wenger stays we can expect a comedy of analogy errors | Marina Hyde 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z A new version of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff is debuting at La Scala in Italy. Ambrogio Maestri on being Falstaff... again - BBC News 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The connection feels improbable—as though there were a Falstaff Ale that really dates to Shakespeare’s Stratford—but also apt. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps Gove would prefer a softer version of betrayal, with him as Shakespeare's Prince Hal, shaking off Falstaff and his amusing but ultimately childish ways as he grew to power. Tory leadership: Behind the scenes of Johnson-Gove drama - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z When the roles are reversed in their extempore play, Hal excoriates Falstaff as that “villainous abominable misleader of youth.” Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater and a 'Henry IV' worthy of applause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z It is as though Falstaff had decided to try his hand at being Prospero, with a secluded little kingdom of his own, and a treasured child. Sex, Food, Rock and Roll 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Pumpkins were considered especially watery - in The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Ford describes Falstaff as "this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpkin". Shakespeare: The strange way people looked at food in the 16th Century - BBC News 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Great stars hanker after the great roles: Olivier playing Henry V, Paul Robeson playing Othello, Orson Welles playing Falstaff, and Gielgud playing Prospero. Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian “Rupert the horse” received high marks from the star baritone in the Royal Opera House’s 2012 production of Verdi’s Falstaff. Our bovine public: a brief history of livestock cameos at the opera 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Verdi composed sublime operas such as “Otello” and “Falstaff” when in his seventies. Peyton Manning and Kobe Bryant deserve to retire on their own terms 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z It's well that Gielgud's work is so vivid, because Welles' Falstaff is overpoweringly good. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Barrie Rutter directs and appears as Falstaff in The Merry Wives.Set in the North of England in the 1920s, this new production opens at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme in February. Theatre in 2016 is all about William and Harry - BBC News 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Falstaff, envisioned by Ms. Monte as a good-natured, aging playboy, comes off as just that and David Andrew Macdonald is usually the better for it. Review: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ Goes for High Jinks and Low Comedy 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z In “Chimes at Midnight,” Welles assumes the role of Falstaff, which he had first played in his youth. A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z We might just as well call them the Falstaffs of Faith. Hatred is weaponizing Jesus: How violent evangelicals, faith-based con artists & serial abusers are using religion for the purpose of evil 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Though it could be supposed that Welles took on the film because few roles were available for a man of his size, in truth, he had been fascinated by Falstaff for most of his life. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Falstaff is all kairos, life in the moment, to whom the measure of minutes and hours is superfluous. How We Measured Time Before Clocks 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z We’ve always been fascinated by aged bodies, particularly bodies, like those of Falstaff, Mr Burns, even Jimmy Savile, which seem to maintain charisma even as they repel us. Why is Elizabeth I, the most powerful woman in our history, always depicted as a grotesque? | Kate Maltby 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Following Welles’s own preference, they often name the 1965 Falstaff film, “Chimes at Midnight,” as his greatest achievement. A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z He is a big boy with a midsection and sense of comic mischief that Shakespeare’s Falstaff might think was over the top. Colorful Trainer and Suddenly Brilliant Gelding Win the Whitney 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z After the battle was won, it was only a matter of time until Prince Hal abandoned Falstaff once he became king. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the wives contrive a plot against the amorous Falstaff which involves an arrangement to meet him under an oak tree in what is now Windsor Great Park. A tour of Shakespeare's England 2014-04-22T23:05:56Z From Falstaff to Churchill and beyond, Britons have been known for their love of drink. Northampton Journal: Partying Until Drunk and Disorderly in Britain 2013-12-23T02:42:35Z The only new entry in the top 10 was the Met Opera's production of Falstaff, Verdi's final opera, conducted by James Levine. Hobbit sequel tops UK box office 2013-12-18T11:54:15Z Ben Whishaw won best leading actor for his performance as Richard II, while Simon Russell Beale's Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2 won him the supporting actor prize. Bafta TV awards 2013-05-13T06:07:07Z So, in his own way, did Orson Welles, and that belief was perhaps a factor in his undoing in the same way Falstaff's was in his. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z "We have heard the chimes at midnight," said Falstaff. Simon Hoggart's week: Parable of the good Samaritan idea 2012-11-23T21:00:03Z In his clever use of similar tawny, brocaded fabrics for the clothes usually worn by Henry and Falstaff, the designer visually links Hal’s opposite father figures. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Henry IV, Part 1,’ at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2012-06-16T03:29:05Z It was here that Prince Hal and “honest Jack Falstaff” played their pranks. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z Why, Falstaff’s ragged regiment was a disciplined and regular body to this band of savages. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Also known as "Falstaff," this 1965 epic is Welles' virtuoso tribute to that largest of Shakespearean characters. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Years later, I introduced him to Alleyn and Burbage; Burbage wanted him on stage but Falstaff had his own stage where he could dupe and bedevil, unmolested by paid gapers. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Like Falstaff, if not humorous in himself, he was "the cause of humor in others." The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Falstaff, who was a very clever fellow, and whose word cannot be doubted, says—"The better part of valour is discretion." Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z As Falstaff says of rebellion and the revolted English lord, greatness "lay in his way, and he found it." Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z What is apparent is that Falstaff had come to believe his own fantasies, had convinced himself that he had a relationship with those in power. Orson Welles raises a glass to Falstaff in the spectacular 'Chimes at Midnight' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Stratford May 23 Falstaff helped me find an old cloak and helped me borrow boots and gloves. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z No painter has made us so well acquainted with the delightful old reprobate, Falstaff, with Bardolph, and the merry company who drank sack at the Boar's Head in Eastcheap. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The better part of valor will always be discretion, now as in Falstaff's time, while the best of horses will get a bit nervous if kept long in a half-dark stable. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z The militia constitute a force as nearly as possible corresponding with that in whose companionship Sir John Falstaff declined to march through Coventry. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He was neither a Socrates nor a Falstaff, neither to be credited 570 with the wisdom and lofty idealizings of the one, nor with the characteristic humour and coarseness of the other.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Those were mad times, those days with Falstaff, and yet, behind every laugh lay the threat of poverty, the knife blade of quarrels, reason gone unreasonable. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z How might we see Falstaff bestow himself toÏnight in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ? Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The savage, like Falstaff, is a coward on instinct; also treacherous, filthy, and cruel. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z Like poor Falstaff, though I do not babble, I think of green fields. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z “But,” as Falstaff has told us, “it was always yet the trick of our English, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is noteworthy that this Oldcastle has been thought to be the original of Falstaff, the hero of Gad's Hill. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z We are pleased when Justice Shallow slaps Sir John Falstaff on the back and says, "Ha! it was a merry night, Sir John." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z With me at that table Jack Falstaff and Prince Hal have crossed their wit and played each the r�le of king. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z Such men would hold Shakespeare responsible for what Falstaff said about "sack," and for Mrs. Quickly's notions of propriety. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Nothing could be more false 890 as an example of what we mean by the humour of Falstaff or of The Vicar of Wakefield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Its weather-worn sign bears portraits of Falstaff and Prince Hal and a picture of the "Merry Wives of Windsor" putting Falstaff into the basket. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z As for Parson Trulliber, the Falstaff of divines, the less said about him the better. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Falstaff says: ‘I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a death’s head, or a memento house.’ Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Comic scenes were freely interspersed to enliven the tedium of royal declamations, and in these lay the possibility of the combination of history and comedy in the Falstaff plays. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z It is situated on the left-hand side, nearly opposite the Falstaff Inn. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Not more than 100 out of the 600 defenders remained alive, and these, as Falstaff says, would have to limp to the town-end and beg for life. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z HEN Falstaff boasted that he was not only witty himself but the cause of wit in other men, he thought of himself more highly than he ought to have thought. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z In some respects his deeds at that period bore likeness to those of the madcap Prince Hal, when that personage was the associate of Falstaff. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Presumably we laugh at Balzac’s characters for the same reason; and presumably we never smile at Falstaff, because he is individual throughout.” The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z As Falstaff he was no less successful in England than in America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Linen was so dear that Shakspere makes Falstaff's shirts eight shillings an ell. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z When we seek one who is the cause of wit in other men we pass by the jovial Falstaff and come to the preternaturally serious Don Quixote. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z “There is one passage in Shakespeare,” said Sherry, “which I have always admired particularly, and it is where Falstaff says, ‘Master Robert Shallow, I owe you £1000.’ Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z He sent a note to the actor Hackett, praising him for his fine presentation of Falstaff. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Falstaff as Herne, with antlers on his head, lies prone beneath the great riven oak which is called Herne's oak, because human Herne is supposed to have hanged himself from a bough of it. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Bob Fielding was so big that when he was happy he was a Falstaff, but when he was unhappy he was a whale ashore. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The last of his iniquities arose from a valor that lacked its better part, an absurd mixture of Falstaff and bantam rooster. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z ‘That may not so easily be, Master Robert Shallow,’ replies Falstaff. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Falstaff, also an English setter, seemed to have sensed that something wasn’t quite right. 10 Pet Heroes to the Rescue 2011-12-12T15:47:00Z The genius that was to realise Falstaff is disclosed in the drawing of a drummer boy discovered in a clothes basket. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z “Lead on, Falstaff, an’ may he who——” “Cut it out,” advised Bart sharply. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z The farmer, a huge Falstaff of a man quite in proportion to his barn, towered in the doorway obscuring the light, while the farm hands clumped with heavy legs towards the horses. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Those who believe this delightful person to be something new and original have simply forgotten Falstaff. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Since October, Schulenberg has dropped 35 pounds, and Falstaff now carefully patrols the yard. 10 Pet Heroes to the Rescue 2011-12-12T15:47:00Z Falstaff has a serene and majestic face; his bulk is too dignified for the scales of a showman; one understands his �sthetic abhorrence of a "mountain of mummy." George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z He had been commissioned by Hidalgo as Captain General of the provinces on the south-west coast in 1810, and departed for his government with as sorry an army as the troop of Falstaff. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z William Falstaff: "I know not what you call all, but if I fought not with the whole British fleet, then I am a bunch of radish." Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War 2011-10-27T02:00:27.020Z Zagloba is a Polish Falstaff, an astonishingly clever imitation of the real thing. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The rough work soon wore out our clothing—many of the men were barefooted; many were wearing citizen's dress; the whole army looked more like Falstaff's ragged regiment than soldiers of the United States. A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry 2011-10-15T02:00:29.757Z Falstaff and the Liar speak not like Don John in the "Chances," and Valentine in "Wit without Money." Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Falstaff wished that his name were not so terrible to the enemy, as he should then be less urgently called upon to go and fight. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872 2011-10-07T02:00:23.543Z In another issue the same paper gives a German reading from Shakspere in which it censures the Prince in much the same manner that Falstaff censured the wild Harry of Henry IV. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z To see Zagloba is to realise the truth of Falstaff's remark, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z In Shakspeare the term is applied to Falstaff: Davy inquires of Shallow: "Doth the man of war stay all night, Sir?" Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-03T02:00:27.757Z Old Jack Falstaff never carried his paunch as nimbly as these Germans carried theirs in their run for their lives. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z In Falstaff's time such scenes as these must have passed in the taverns of Merrie England. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z See Colonel Playfair, shaped in form rotund, Parade, the unrivall'd Falstaff of the ground; He laughs and jokes, plays, "what you like," and yet You'll rarely find him make a foolish bet. Poems on Golf 2011-09-08T02:00:19.780Z Compare these two crude testimonies, which make the ludicrous blunders made by the Hostess in that marvellous account of the death of Falstaff, and you have a veritable harmony of the Gospels. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Now, instead of being enormously fat, ridiculously amorous, vain, old, drunken, and a corrupter of youth, Falstaff was one of the most important figures of his time, a Knight of the Garter, holding high command. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The energetic enemy had slightly over-exerted himself, and was taking a fretful sort of rest, something like that of old Jack Falstaff when his little expeditions had not been marked successes. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Then we were quickly hauled up, our dignity suffering in the way we were “dumped” down on the deck like jugs of molasses, or Falstaff going to the wash. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Woodside painted a handsome sign, bearing a portrait of the famous old actor and theatrical manager, William Warren, as Falstaff, with the inscription, “Shall I not take mine ease at my inn?” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z If I may be permitted to make a comparison, I think that Zagloba is a better character than Falstaff. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z At the date of Henry V.'s accession, Falstaff was at most four-and-thirty. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Richard II., the scene of the revels of Falstaff and Henry V., when Prince of Wales, is very nearly that of the statue of King William IV. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Falstaff is just a fat old gentleman who drank too much sack, a' babbled of green fields and then needed professional attention. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z There were baskets of every size and form, from those which might hold a lady’s fancy-work, right up to the enormous holder in which Falstaff himself might have been borne. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z The book should not be stuffed too full of prints; let a better proportion be preserved between the text and the illustrations than Falstaff observed between his bread and his sack. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Up to a certain point Falstaff is ludicrous in the same way as many other figures, his distinction lying, so far, chiefly in the mere abundance of ludicrous traits. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z When one is in their company they are barely civil, and that is, as Jack Falstaff says, by compulsion. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Here is the chair where Falstaff sat when he cried out that the sack was spoiled with villainous lime. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Johnson and some others have objected to this explanation, but it seems to be evident that Falstaff meant that he would get health and wealth from Shallow. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Even Falstaff is by no means a wholly comic figure, and the wisdom of Jaques, with all its affectation, contains a truth that goes beneath the surface. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z For these things by themselves do not explain why, beside laughing at Falstaff, we are made happy by him and laugh with him. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z I am myself, in one respect, like Falstaff; I am not only witty in myself, but the cause of wit in others, which, in these times, is no slight accomplishment. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Other points of resemblance between the historic Fastolf and the Falstaff of the dramatist are to be found in their service under Thomas Mowbray, and association with a Boar’s Head Inn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z He writes as much to Reynolds, concluding with an adaptation from Falstaff expressive of anxiety for the health of some of those dear to him—probably his brother Tom and James Rice:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Shakespeare may have based Falstaff on observation; but probably no man, except Shakespeare himself, was ever quite as humorous as the fat knight. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Falstaff is neither a liar nor a coward in the usual sense, like the typical cowardly boaster of comedy. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z When the summer weather comes on, I shall try to persuade you to come and see us on the top of Falstaff's Hill. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z But Falstaff is in no true sense a dramatization of the real soldier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The big ship, like Falstaff, "'a made a finer end and went away, an it had been any christom child: 'a parted even just between" four and five, "ev'n at turning o' the tide." From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z With Falstaff, I hold the more of it the more frailty. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Falstaff’s lies about Hotspur and the men in buckram do not essentially differ from these statements. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z That man is dull who will not laugh At the drolleries of Falstaff, And few that could not shed a tear At sorrows of poor old King Lear. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z "Never," telegraphed this Falstaff of pustulous aspect, "have baser countenances of a base demagogy met the afflicted gaze of honest men." History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Logical argumentation is therefore powerless against affective interests; that is why arguing with reasons which, according to Falstaff, are as common as blackberries, are so fruitless where our interests are concerned. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z Miss Fortune, a new opera by Judith Weir will receive its UK premiere in March 2012, while a new production of Verdi's Falstaff is also being planned for the end of the season in May. ROH announces new 2011/12 season 2011-04-15T09:26:36Z The main source, then, of our sympathetic delight in Falstaff is his humorous superiority to everything serious, and the freedom of soul enjoyed in it. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z With the exception of the quality of courage, I never met a man who contained within himself so many of the traits of Falstaff as the individual who furnished me with "Major Monsoon." Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Bessus, in Beaumont and Fletcher’s King and No King, is said by Theobald to be a copy of Falstaff; but he has little or none of his humour. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Inside, some day, the newest, Falstaff, Will occupy a far from small staff Of band and chorus; Outside, as now, old slums ill-smelling, And costermongers, shouting, yelling, Will be before us. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z There are no numbers, like the "Preis" song or Hans Sachs' soliloquies from Wagner's great comic opera, that can be performed with great effect at concerts: with Verdi's Falstaff it is all or nothing. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z You no more regard Falstaff’s misdeeds morally than you do the much more atrocious misdeeds of Punch or Reynard the Fox. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He was a man of genius and a loyal, warm-hearted, good fellow; but he was not Shakespeare, nor was Sam Weller Falstaff. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z He follows the formul� of Falstaff and instead of achieving a roaring joviality he goes to sleep. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z "In the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy?" How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Falstaff is alone, and sings his famous soliloquy on the wicked, treacherous world. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z As I said, in the creation of Falstaff he overreached himself. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z My own experience in the silk jacket has been of the slightest; and I confess that, like Falstaff with his reasons, I never fancied being rattled quite so fast at my fences “on compulsion.” Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Indeed, in the world of Fiction, all the wisdom issues from the mouths of fools—as witness Shakspeare's Falstaff and his fools. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Nor let it be supposed that, in using, as nearly synonymous, the word Melancholy, we mean anything so absurd as that the author of Falstaff was a Werther. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z There is a song by J. L. Hatton entitled "Falstaff's Song: Give me a cup of sack, boy." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Falstaff, on the other hand, has been in one respect the most unfortunate of Shakespeare’s famous characters. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Scene 2, of its pilfering ways, Falstaff cries out: I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Coal-heavers and draymen make the air vocal with their oaths and slang, which once resounded with the laughter of Jack Falstaff and his jolly companions. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z If Shakespeare had not been precisely and wholly Shakespeare, and not any other man actual or conceivable, could Hamlet or Falstaff, or any other of his creations, have been what they are? The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Falstaff, symphonic study in C minor, with two interludes in A minor, composed by Sir Edward Elgar, Op. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Now it was no more possible for Shakespeare to show his 248 own Falstaff in love than to turn twice two into five. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The country began to unroll, all padded with its monstrous coverlet; the trees masqueraded as wool-stuffed Falstaffs; the cliffs seemed to have increased in the night; the heavens were nearer the earth. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z It did not merely provide Falstaff with a pattern for mock-moral diction and vegetable similes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Do you remember when Falstaff said that the lion could always recognise the true prince? The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z After the overture comes a duet for Page and Ford; then Falstaff's entrance and song. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z And among the characters he could introduce a disreputable fat old knight with attendants, and could call them Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, and Nym. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Then to the great surprise of all the world he wrote two others, the finest of them all—Othello and Falstaff. Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: Verdi 2011-02-05T03:00:16.947Z “Swaggering Pistoll,” like Falstaff, had become a delight to the town. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z From the "Merry Wives" he proposes Falstaff's three adventures: the basket scene, the Witch of Brentford scene and the final torturing of Falstaff by the practical jokers. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Near the end Falstaff joins in, and for the last fourteen bars principals and chorus sing an ensemble. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Falstaff breaks out, ‘My lord, my lord,’ but he is cut short and hurried away; and after a few words between the Prince and the Chief Justice the scene closes, and with it the drama. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Then he produced his two great works, Othello and Falstaff. Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: Verdi 2011-02-05T03:00:16.947Z But he quickly retrieved his position by producing another Falstaff play, “Henry IV.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z These scenes are the skeleton of the farce element and bring out the structure of the Falstaff plot which Tieck evidently regards as the main theme. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z We now come to the third opera founded on The Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, libretto by Boito. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z His anger had soon passed, and he knew that the requisite effect had been produced both on Falstaff and on the world. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z We have reason to suppose that he made in Derby many china figures of cats, dogs, shepherdesses, Falstaffs, Minervas, and the like, which William Duesbury, who was an expert enameler in London, colored for him. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The creation of the character of Falstaff in “Henry IV.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z We had several Hals, who had defied their harsh old papas, and given them the slip, to keep Falstaff company; and as for raconteurs, we had them by the score. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Falstaff comes only once to Ford's house, and is thrown out of a window into the Thames, so never escapes as the wise woman of Brentford. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z In the Falstaff scenes he overshot his mark. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He intended even to become an actor of Falstaff and he had long been a capable amateur. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z If, peradventure, there shall have intruded into our company any who love not glass, let us protest with Falstaff, “I’ll not march through Coventry with them, that’s flat.” Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z If the reader recollects Falstaff’s description of his ragged battalion, he will have a pretty good idea of the personnel I had before me. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z During this act Falstaff sings to Mistress Ford the fine song about his youth, "Once I was page to the Duke of Norfolk." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Falstaff’s ease and enjoyment are not simply those of the happy man of appetite;5 they are those of the humorist, and the humorist of genius. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He writes as his own Falstaff speaks—as if almost without the trouble of thought. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Did you see him only by day, flaming in apparel, jovial and free-hearted at the Restaurateur or Hotel, you would think him a Prince let loose—a cross between Prince Hal and Falstaff. Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z ‘Heaven defend me from that Welsh fairy!’ says Falstaff, ‘lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!’ British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The first part of the third act opens with, for Verdi, quite a long introduction, agitato in nature, on the theme that interrupts Falstaff's love-making in the previous act. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Prince Hal never made such sport of Falstaff’s person as he himself did. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z I used to get excited over Shakespeare and Juliet and Hamlet and Falstaff and all those people, but they made other people seem rather shadowy. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Some excellent instructors caper in front of the blackboard like summer-theater Falstaffs; others are reserved to the point of shyness. Mind: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits 2010-09-06T19:47:00Z “They are fairies,” says Falstaff: “he that looks on them shall die.” British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z There is a long and beautiful sort of choral ballet, in which Falstaff is badly treated by everyone, especially by Bardolph. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z This is what Falstaff does with all the would-be serious things of life, sometimes only by his words, sometimes by his actions too. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The asseverations employed by the Shallows and Slanders are as limpid and as timorous as those of Falstaff and Bardolph are downright and headstrong. A Cursory History of Swearing Falstaff exclaims, "What! is the old king dead?" and Pistol replies, "As nail in door." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources One is reminded of Falstaff's sentiments: "I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers it out, but the disease is incurable." Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands The work opens with a boisterous theme given out on the bass instruments, depicting the mature Falstaff in the height of his fame or infamy, as you will. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z No one in the play understands Falstaff fully, any more than Hamlet was understood by the persons round him. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Like Falstaff's sword, the edges of these weapons present tokens of having given and received many shattering blows, but one feels no doubt that the evidence here displayed is genuine. The Story of Malta You may say of it, as Falstaff said of Prince Henry, 'By the Lord, I know you as well as he that made you.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 The braggadocio of their fighting songs would do credit to Falstaff; but the Maori affords us the anomaly of a braggart who is not by any means a coward. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Perhaps the libretto by S. M. Maggioni may have helped Falstaff into its present oblivion. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z And when, in the second place, we look at Falstaff’s actions, what do we find? Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Falstaff is disguised as the “Fat Woman of Brentford” in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, and numerous other references to the town in literature point, in most cases, to its reputation for excessive dirt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" One of them, our Falstaff, who was the one most concerned at my loss, took me aside one day and asked whether I was really in earnest about this foolish affair. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. Names have a fascination for me, and I cannot resist quoting the name of Henry Pikebone, who, I hope, pronounced it Pickbone, and might well have been one of Falstaff’s men. Springtime and Other Essays In this charming duet is hatched the plot for the undoing of Falstaff. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z For it is exactly thus that, according to the original stage-direction, Falstaff behaves when Henry and Poins attack him and the others. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z All the town is aware that this Jack Falstaff contributes largely to the scandal that is afloat. The Progressionists, and Angela. Even the great Verdi was induced to change his methods in A�da, Otello, and Falstaff—all representing a much higher art than his earlier operas. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Falstaff, who was a very clever fellow, and whose word cannot be doubted, says, "The better part of valour is discretion." Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times With Fenton disguised as Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Anne Page as Titania, Falstaff is "put through the hoops," even as he is in Shakespeare's play, and a very melodious trio begins the finale. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z But it no more touches the real Falstaff than Ophelia is degraded by that parody. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z There is now, however, no excuse for those who have resigned themselves to carry to the grave the rotund proportions of a Falstaff. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them To me Falstaff seems the most remarkable of all Italian operas. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists |
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