Fortunes of Falstaff

by John Dover Wilson

Book Overview

Dr Dover Wilson examines Falstaff's role in the two parts of Henry IV and his relationship to the Prince. Like most other Shakespearean scholars he had accepted, Bradley's portrait as shown in The Rejection of Falstaff, until (as he writes) he 'began checking it with yet another portrait - that which I found in the pages of Shakespeare himself. As the result of much recent work on the two parts of Henry IV, a new Falstaff stands before me, as fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521092469
• ISBN13: 9780521092463
• Release Date: September 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"