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Definitions of falstaff in various dictionaries:
noun - a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays
FALSTAFF - Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who is mentioned in four plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage in three of them. His significa...
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| This character described himself as having "more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty" |
| Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one |
| In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket |
| You're obese, gluttonous, lecherous, & you stabbed Hotspur's corpse; you either get it or you don't, & you don't |
| Prince Hal says to him, "thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack" |
| Prince Hal called him "that stuffed cloak-bag of guts"; guess he's not "The Biggest Loser" |
| He says, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men" |
| Some merry wives dress up like fairies in Verdi's 1893 opera named for this Shakespearean character |
| Shakespeare never put this comical knight's name in a title, but Verdi did |
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| a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays |
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Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who is mentioned in four plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage in three of them. His significance as a fully developed character in Shakespeare is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A notable eulogy for Falstaff is presented in Act II, Scene III of Henry V, where Falstaff does not appear as a character on stage, as enacted by Mistress Quickly in terms that some scholars have ascribed to Plato's description of the death of Socrates after drinking hemlock. By comparison, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is presented by Shakespeare as the buffoonish suitor of two married women. * Though primarily a comic figure, Falstaff still embodies a kind of depth common to Shakespeare's major characters. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, he spends most of his time drinking at the Boar's Head Inn with petty criminals, living on stolen or borrowed |