Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director

by Orson Welles and Bridget Gellert Lyons

Among the films inspired by Orson Welles's lifelong involvement with Shakespeare, the greatest is Chimes at Midnight (1966). It is a masterly conflation of the Shakespearean history plays that feature Falstaff, the great comic figure played by Welles himself in the film. For Welles, the character was also potentially tragic: the doomed friendship between Falstaff and Prince Hal becomes an image of the end of an age. To this epic subject Welles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513391
• ISBN13: 9780813513393
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"