Author: ANDY. JOHNSON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910839423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE OF HEREFORDSHIRE
Author: ANDY. JOHNSON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910839423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910839423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Real Falstaff
Author: Stephen Cooper
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844687740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This historical study examines the life and military accomplishments of the medieval knight who inspired one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters. One of the most famous English knights of the Hundred Years War, Sir John Fastolf is widely thought to be a model for Shakespeare’s immortal character, Sir John Falstaff. In The Real Falstaff, historian Stephen Cooper examines the link in full, shedding light on his story as well as the declining English fortunes during the last phase of the Hundred Years War. Witnessing both the triumphs of Henry V, and the disasters of the 1450s, Fastolf was one of the last of the brave but often brutal English soldiers who made their careers waging war in France. Cooper retraces the entire course of Fastolf’s long life, putting special focus on his many campaigns. A vivid picture of the old soldier emerges and of the French wars in which he played such a prominent part. But the author also explores Fastolf’s legacy, his connection to the Paston family—famous for the Paston letters—and the use Shakespeare made of Fastolf’s name, career, and character when he created Sir John Falstaff.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844687740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This historical study examines the life and military accomplishments of the medieval knight who inspired one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters. One of the most famous English knights of the Hundred Years War, Sir John Fastolf is widely thought to be a model for Shakespeare’s immortal character, Sir John Falstaff. In The Real Falstaff, historian Stephen Cooper examines the link in full, shedding light on his story as well as the declining English fortunes during the last phase of the Hundred Years War. Witnessing both the triumphs of Henry V, and the disasters of the 1450s, Fastolf was one of the last of the brave but often brutal English soldiers who made their careers waging war in France. Cooper retraces the entire course of Fastolf’s long life, putting special focus on his many campaigns. A vivid picture of the old soldier emerges and of the French wars in which he played such a prominent part. But the author also explores Fastolf’s legacy, his connection to the Paston family—famous for the Paston letters—and the use Shakespeare made of Fastolf’s name, career, and character when he created Sir John Falstaff.
The Oldcastle Controversy
Author: Peter Corbin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719026935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Life of Sir John Falstaff
Author: Robert Barnabas Brough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etching, British
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"The plan of this work [is] ... to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"--Preface
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etching, British
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"The plan of this work [is] ... to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"--Preface
Staging Ireland
Author: Stephen O'Neill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range of canonical and less familiar plays, such as The Misfortunes of Arthur, Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir John Oldcastle and Dekker's The Honest Whore, this book reveals fascinating interconnections between Ireland as it was figured in Elizabethan and early Jacobean drama, and contemporaneous political and cultural anxieties about Ireland and Irish alterity. Exploring how the stage provided a fluid, though licensed, space where such anxieties were negotiated and confronted, this study questions views of the stage Irishman as a static colonialist stereotype. Instead, it demonstrates that dramatic representations of Ireland were dynamic, heterogeneous, and ideologically unstable. Opening up Renaissance drama to its multivalent Irish contexts, Staging Ireland will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and early modern literature; drama and theatre as well as Irish studies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range of canonical and less familiar plays, such as The Misfortunes of Arthur, Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir John Oldcastle and Dekker's The Honest Whore, this book reveals fascinating interconnections between Ireland as it was figured in Elizabethan and early Jacobean drama, and contemporaneous political and cultural anxieties about Ireland and Irish alterity. Exploring how the stage provided a fluid, though licensed, space where such anxieties were negotiated and confronted, this study questions views of the stage Irishman as a static colonialist stereotype. Instead, it demonstrates that dramatic representations of Ireland were dynamic, heterogeneous, and ideologically unstable. Opening up Renaissance drama to its multivalent Irish contexts, Staging Ireland will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and early modern literature; drama and theatre as well as Irish studies.
The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham
Author: Michael Drayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. By Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. By Mr. William Shakespear
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Fanned and Winnowed Opinions
Author: Harold Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780416004229
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780416004229
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A Critical Edition of I SIr John Oldcastle
Author: Jonathan Rittenhouse
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Originally published in 1984, this book contains the full text of I, Sir John Oldcastle, alongside critical and textual notes, including an examination of the authors and the theatrical background and assessment. For such an obscure play, I Sir John Oldcastle has had a varied printing history and has been printed eighteen times since its original 1600 publication date. The text here is a modern-spelling version and archaic forms are only presered where rhyme or metre requires them, or when modernization obscres rather than clarifies the required sense of the word.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Originally published in 1984, this book contains the full text of I, Sir John Oldcastle, alongside critical and textual notes, including an examination of the authors and the theatrical background and assessment. For such an obscure play, I Sir John Oldcastle has had a varied printing history and has been printed eighteen times since its original 1600 publication date. The text here is a modern-spelling version and archaic forms are only presered where rhyme or metre requires them, or when modernization obscres rather than clarifies the required sense of the word.