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Author |
: Harold Bloom |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2017-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501164156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501164155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Falstaff by : Harold Bloom
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes “a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom’s imagination” (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—Shakespeare’s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters. Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare’s three Henry plays: Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads, him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him—some innocent, some cruel. Falstaff can be lewd, funny, careless of others, a bad creditor, an unreliable friend, and in the end, devastatingly reckless in his presumption of loyalty from the new King. Award-winning author and esteemed professor 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 when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged, Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime. Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character, and this “poignant work” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare’s characters make. “In this first of five books about Shakespearean personalities, Bloom brings erudition and boundless enthusiasm” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and his exhilarating Falstaff invites us to look at a character as a flawed human who might live in our world.
Author |
: Stephen Cooper |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000127027641 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real Falstaff by : Stephen Cooper
Sir John Fastolf was one of the most famous English knights and military commanders of the Hundred Years' War, and is commonly thought to be a model for Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's greatest characters. This book examines the link in full.
Author |
: Giuseppe Verdi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 62 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105042486725 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Falstaff by : Giuseppe Verdi
Author |
: Sarah Sover |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2022-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1645541460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781645541462 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fairy Godmurder by : Sarah Sover
Gwendolyn Evenshine thought being a fairy godmother would be cut and dried-take on a charge, solve a royal problem, and return to the Academy for her next assignment. But she got too close. When the beloved Princess Francesca is brutally murdered on her watch, Gwen refuses to resume her fairy godmother duties. Instead, she laces her docs and hits the streets of Boston in search of the bastard who took Frankie from her, a serial killer who operates in lunar cycles. But Gwen's magic is on the fritz, and bodies are piling up. Gwen enlists the talents of Chessa Moon, an upbeat pixie crime blogger who will do anything for a scoop. Together, they open new leads as they race against the hunter's moon. As the killer hits closer and closer to home, Gwen is forced to confront her past and nail the killer, or she'll lose more than just her shot at vengeance-she'll lose the only person in her life worth a damn.
Author |
: James A. Hepokoski |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1983-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521280168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521280167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Falstaff by : James A. Hepokoski
A compact, up-to-date guide to the history and construction of Verdi's last - and possibly greatest - opera.
Author |
: John Dover Wilson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 1979-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521092469 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521092463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fortunes of Falstaff by : John Dover Wilson
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 as Bradley's, certainly quite as human, but different; and beside him stands a still more unexpected Prince Hal. The discovery throws all my previous ideas out of focus.' As the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement wrote, Falstaff 'is no hero, as the romantics have tried to make him out, nor is he merely a typical and traditional stage-butt. But he is Falstaff riding for a fall; and when he takes his toss he is up again in still unconquerable effrontery and humour ... The Prince as we watch him through Dr Dover Wilson's eyes growing in grace, first in chivalry and then in justice, we do more than observe the making of a hero-king. We get to know a very lovable, faulty, generous, noble-minded young man; and a character in the play whose scenes are so far from being mere padding between Falstaff's that the whole is seen as a masterpiece of construction.'
Author |
: William Kenrick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 1760 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082238372 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Falstaff's Wedding by : William Kenrick
Author |
: Belgrave Titmarsh |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 1889 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044086870433 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakspere's Skull and Falstaff's Nose by : Belgrave Titmarsh
Author |
: William KENRICK (LL.D.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 78 |
Release |
: 1766 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0017659780 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Falstaff's Wedding. A comedy in five acts, in prose and in verse , being a sequel to the second part of the play of King Henry the Fourth. Written in imitation of Shakespeare by : William KENRICK (LL.D.)
Author |
: Alice-Lyle Scoufos |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015002273939 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Typological Satire by : Alice-Lyle Scoufos