Falstaff : give me life /

Falstaff : give me life / Harold Bloom.

"Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal. Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby...

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Main Author: Bloom, Harold (Author)
Other title:Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: New York : Scribner, April 2017.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Series:Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare's personalities.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Falstaff.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Henry IV.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Henry V.
Falstaff, John, > Sir (Fictitious character)
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Falstaff.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Henry the Fifth.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Henry the Fourth 1.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Henry the Fourth 2.
Henry V (Shakespeare, William)
King Henry IV (Shakespeare, William)
Soldiers in literature.
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • Playing Falstaff
  • Beautiful, laughing, living speech
  • Hotspur: die all, die merrily
  • Whose Falstaff is it?
  • Bardolph's nose
  • Falstaff rises in the body
  • Foregrounding Falstaff
  • Darkening Falstaff
  • Shakespeare darkening
  • Who plays the King
  • Ancient Pistol and Doll Tearsheet
  • Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
  • Shallow and silence: Falstaff at recruitment
  • Prince John of Lancaster at betrayal
  • Falstaff on sherris sack
  • Master Robert Shallow and Falstaff
  • Falstaff in Shallow's orchard
  • The arrest of Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet
  • The rejection of Falstaff
  • The death of Sir John Falstaff.

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