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Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character 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 of England. Falstaff is also featured as the buffoonish suitor of two married women in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Though primarily a comic figure, he embodies a depth common to Shakespeare's major characters. A fat, vain, and boastful knight, he spends most of his time drinking at the Boar's Head Inn with petty criminals, living on stolen or borrowed money. Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is repudiated when Hal becomes king. (From Wikipedia) More about John Falstaff:
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14 additional books about John Falstaff in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Falstaff and his companions. Twenty-one illustrations in silhouette (Roberts brothers, 1872), by Paul Konewka and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)- Shakespeare's lost years in London, 1586-1592, giving new light on the pre-sonnet period; showing the inception of relations between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton and displaying John Florio as Sir John Falstaff (B. Quaritch, 1920), by Arthur Acheson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The merry wives of Windsor. (The University press, 1921), by William Shakespeare and Arthur Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Original letters, etc., of Sir John Falstaff and his friends (Harper, 1924), by James White and Charles Edmund Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Falstaff; pièce en vers en cinq actes et sept tableaux, imitée de Shakespeare. (E. Fasquelle, 1904), by Jacques Richepin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakspeare's plays (Printed by C. Whittingham for Thomas Tegg, Cheapside [et al.], 1823), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- The first sketch of Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor. (Printed for the Shakespeare society, 1842), by William Shakespeare and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
- The merry wives of Windsor (Macmillan, 1913), by William Shakespeare and Fred Parker Emery (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lecture on the character of Falstaff, delivered at Melbourne by G.W. Rusden, in aid of the fund... Shakespeare Scholarship ... Melbourne University. (Stillwell & Knight, 1870), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oldcastle-Falstaff in der englischen literatur bis zu Shakespeare. (Mayer & Müller, 1905), by Wilhelm Baeske (page images at HathiTrust)
- Merry wives of Windsor. (American book company, 1910), by William Shakespeare and W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakspeare diversions; a medley of motley wear (Scribner, Welford, & Armstrong, 1875), by Francis Jacox and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Falstaff's letters; originally published in 1796 and now reprinted verbatim et literatim, with notices of the author collected from Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt and other contemporaries. (B. Robson, 1877), by James White (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592, by Arthur Acheson (Gutenberg ebook)
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