film adapts the Henriad and The Merry Wives. Welles, who played Falstaff in his film, considered the character "Shakespeare's greatest creation". The...
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expansionist territorial claims in France. The character of John Falstaff, as depicted in the film, is a fictional character created by Shakespeare. Many historians...
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Chimes at Midnight (category John Falstaff)
Campanadas a medianoche, released in most of Europe as Falstaff) is a 1966 period comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Its...
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Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted...
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repudiation of Falstaff in Part 2, "I know thee not, old man." The film also uses Falstaff's line "do not, when thou art King, hang a thief" from Henry IV...
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of American Beer Falstaff Brewing Company Chimes at Midnight or Falstaff, a film by Orson Welles Falstaff, an apple cultivar Falstaff, a crater on the...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (category British plays adapted into films)
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed...
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but he's not the sort of Weeble-shaped figure he is in the comics. He's Falstaff with muscles. I've got this amazing foam-injected undersuit that flexes...
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Henry IV, Part 1 (category British plays adapted into films)
Hal meets with Falstaff and his associates at the Boar's Head Tavern. Falstaff and Hal are close, but Hal enjoys insulting Falstaff, and, in a soliloquy...
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Henry IV, Part 2 (category British plays adapted into films)
toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff. However, unlike Part One, Hal's and Falstaff's stories are almost entirely separate, as the two...
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