Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

However, many stage and film adaptations have seen it necessary to include Falstaff for the insight he provides into King Henry V's character.

It has been suggested that the dissolute writer Robert Greene may also have been an inspiration for the character of Falstaff.

In Stratford-upon-Avon, the owners of Shrieves House, the former Three Tunns Tavern and now a museum, claim William Shakespeare based the character Falstaff on William Rogers, one of the Sargeants of the mace and close friend of the Shakespeares.

In a documentary chronicling the making of the first three Indiana Jones films, John Rhys-Davies stated that his character of Sallah was meant to be a cross between his character in Shogun, Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues, and Falstaff.

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

In the Rex Stout novel " Counterfeit for Murder " ( found in the < i > Homicide Trinity </ i >), character Hattie Annis states that Nero Wolfe " would do fine for Falstaff.

Of course, Draper notes that Falstaff is also something of a boastful military man, but notes, “ Falstaff is so complex a character that he may well be, in effect, a combination of interlocking types .”

The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined lad known as " Prince Harry " and by Falstaff as " Hal ".

The Shrieves House is one of the oldest still lived in houses in the town and Shakespeare is said to have based his character of Sir John Falstaff on one of the residents, his godson's uncle.

He understood and revelled in the character of Falstaff, but his performance lacked fundamental force.

Though Falstaff presents some features of an Elizabethan dramatic clown, his character is higher in class and more complex than the other roles with which Kempe is associated.

* Sir John Falstaff – a cowardly fat knight who befriends Prince Hal ; a fictional character, he was originally called " Oldcastle " and distantly based on Sir John Oldcastle.

1 Henry IV was almost certainly in performance by 1597, given the wealth of allusions and references to the Falstaff character.

A few dissenters have argued that the Dering MS. may indicate that Shakespeare's Henry IV was originally a single play, which the poet later expanded into two parts to capitalise on the popularity of the Sir John Falstaff character.

Henry IV, Part 1 caused controversy on its first performances in 1597, because the comic character now known as " Falstaff " was originally named " Oldcastle " and was based on John Oldcastle, a famous Protestant martyr with powerful living descendants in England.

Although the character is called Falstaff in all surviving texts of the play, there is abundant external and internal evidence that he was originally called Oldcastle.

He is presumed to be the basis of William Shakespeare's character Falstaff.

The genesis of Sir John Oldcastle is crucially linked to the fact that when Shakespeare's Henry IV plays premiered on stage in 1597 – 98, the character Sir John Falstaff was called Sir John Oldcastle.

Curiously, this effort to redeem the Oldcastle name was at best only partially successful ; allusions to the Falstaff character under the name of Oldcastle continued to appear in succeeding years — in Nathan Field's play Amends for Ladies ( 1618 ) and in the anonymous pamphlets The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary ( 1604 ) and The Wandering Jew ( c. 1628 ), among other works.

The play offers a comic character, Sir John of Wrotham, a pale imitation of Falstaff, who interacts with a disguised Henry V ( III, iv ) much as in Shakespeare's plays.

Sir John Fastolf was a prominent soldier in the Hundred Years ' War who gave his name to Shakespeare's character Falstaff.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character the oftentimes underlying vitality and courage of supposed buffoons.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Evidence suggests he was not physically strong, and though not lacking in courage, he was more noted for his intellect than a warlike character.

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The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

Writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that the lads idolize even though he beats them up ; Judge based Todd on a teenaged bully who lived near him and terrified him as a kid.

Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.

Northern Ontario is home to a wide array of mines, while the fishing industry has long been central to the character of the Atlantic provinces, though it has recently been in steep decline.

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

The name Daedalus is used in James Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, though spelled differently in the last name of the character Stephen Dedalus.

Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

( A 5-Fire, 5-Earth hero can typically defeat two 4-Fire, 5-Earth enemies, or handily defeat a 3-Fire, 5-Earth character in foot race, but cannot necessarily run twice as fast even though speed is governed by Fire.

Abbot's publications, though always of the most thorough and scholarly character, were to a large extent dispersed in the pages of reviews, dictionaries, concordances, texts edited by others, Unitarian controversial treatises, etc.

This film has a story that happened long before which is narrated by one character in the framing scene, and initially accompanied by his narrating dialogue in intertitles, though after a while this stops, and the intertitles then convey the dialogue occurring within the flashback.

They worked with the character again in 1967 though, when they helped Rankin / Bass co produce their film King Kong Escapes ( which was loosely based on a cartoon series R / B had produced ).

Chambers, though, indulged in the decadent style of Wilde and Machen ( even to the extent of having a character named ' Wilde ' in his The King in Yellow ).

Ironically, though, Guy is the only character who goes unharmed in the adventure.

It is very possible that this later story was a later attempt to defame his character, as Hadrian, though popular among a great many across the Empire, was not universally admired, either in his lifetime or afterwards.

The character set is broadly broken into the following categories ( though these are by no means the only etymological roots of the characters we see in modern Chinese script ):

It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.

The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.