It is generally believed that Shakespeare originally named Falstaff " John Oldcastle ", and that Lord Cobham, a descendant of the historical John Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name.

In the published version of Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff's name is always unmetrical, suggesting a name change after the original composition ; Prince Hal refers to Falstaff as " my old lad of the castle " in the first act of the play ; the epilogue to Henry IV, Part II, moreover, explicitly disavows any connection between Falstaff and Oldcastle, a dancer declaring: "... where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already ' a be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this is not the man ".

At any rate, The name is Falstaff in the Henry IV, part 1 quarto, of 1598, and the epilogue to the second part, published in 1600, contains this clarification:

The new name " Falstaff " probably derived from the medieval knight Sir John Fastolf ( who was also a Lollard ).

Roles associated with his name may include the great comic creation, Falstaff, and his contemporaries considered him the successor to the great clown of the previous generation Richard Tarlton.

" Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ", but correct with " Oldcastle ".

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85 – 90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

The name was changed to " Falstaff ", based on Sir John Fastolf, an historical person with a reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay, and whom Shakespeare had previously represented in Henry VI, Part 1.

In 1986, the Oxford Shakespeare edition of Shakespeare's works rendered the character's name as Oldcastle, rather than Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 1 ( although not, confusingly, in Part 2 ), as a consequence of the editors ' aim to present the plays as they would have appeared during their original performances.

Edmond Malone reported seeing Heminges ' name associated with the role of Falstaff ; there is, however, no other evidence exists of this connection.

" Iambic pentameter verse lines in both parts are irregular when using the name " Falstaff ," but correct with " Oldcastle.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85-90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

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.

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

The character of Falstaff, though immensely popular from the start, aroused the ire of Lord Cobham, who objected to the use of the character's original name ( Oldcastle ), which derived from a member of Cobham's family.

He may have been the subject of a number of Elizabethan satires such as Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, and may have been the model of Shakespeare's Falstaff, who was originally given the name ' Oldcastle '.

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