This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. 'Tis the season to be Falstaff. Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff is arguably the most beloved character in Western literature. The "fat kidneyed rascal" ...
Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre. Playing ...
This is KPBS mid-day edition. I am Maureen Cavanaugh. William Shakespeare's character Sir John Falstaff had a larger-than-life presence in the Henry IV historical play and in the comedy, the Merry ...
When William Shakespeare wrote “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” it was said to be at the request of Queen Elizabeth I, who loved the comic character of Sir John Falstaff in the Bard’s Henry plays so much ...
It may be that, at least for opera buffa, all you need to put on a great show is a first-rate lead, a good conductor and orchestra, and, above all, a terrific director. The Virginia Opera’s new ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Adapted by Don Melander, The Dramatic and Fractured Life of Sir John ...
A Chamberlain of an Inn King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Servant to Hotspur King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Sheriff King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Traveler King Henry IV, Part I 1946 Another Traveler King ...
It’s fun to watch the downfall of a jackass, and Sir John Falstaff, the despicable villain from Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” is one of the slimiest. In the the Atlanta Shakespeare ...
Fri, October 25, 2019 at 5:20 PM UTC In the first play, the Lancasters ascend to the throne of England, as Henry Bolingbroke — later King Henry IV — deposes his cousin King Richard II. Prince Hal, ...
Harold Bloom, Scribner, 176 pages. In The Daemon Knows, published in 2015, the heroic, boundless Harold Bloom claimed to have one more book left in him. If his contract with Simon & Schuster is any ...
It’s been suggested that Queen Elizabeth I was so charmed by William Shakespeare’s shamelessly degenerate Sir John Falstaff character in the “Henry” historical plays that she requested, perhaps ...
Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...
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