Tag Archives: Falstaff

The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Royal Library

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Sylvia Morris

The story that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor in response to a request from Queen Elizabeth to see Falstaff in love goes back a long way. In the prologue to his 1702 adaptation of the play, The Comical … Continue reading →

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Antony Sher playing Shakespeare’s fat knight

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

The Radio 4 Book of the Week beginning on 4 May 2015 was Antony Sher’s  Year of the Fat Knight: the Falstaff Diaries, his account of  the process of preparing for and performing Falstaff in Henry IV parts 1 and … Continue reading →

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Falstaff and the loss of Merrie England

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

This week Sir Antony Sher takes on the role of one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, Sir John Falstaff, in the first of the Henry IV plays, for the RSC. It’s a role that has attracted many of the greatest … Continue reading →

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Michael Attenborough and Shakespeare

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Last week Stratford’s Shakespeare Club was lucky enough to be given a look into internationally-renowned director Michael Attenborough’s views of Shakespeare. Attenborough is currently Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre in London, though he is resigning from that post after … Continue reading →

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The legend of Herne’s Oak

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

The Merry Wives of Windsor is set in the depth of winter, the season Shakespeare associates with eating, drinking, telling stories, singing, and practical jokes. It’s also  one of the few plays for which Shakespeare invented the plot, and he … Continue reading →

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Facts, fiction and Shakespeare’s view of history

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

It’s always claimed that Shakespeare must have been fascinated by British history because he wrote so many plays about it. I make the play count thirteen. But was this fascination with the history itself, or did he see it as … Continue reading →

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Seeking out Shakespeare’s villains

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

The series of blogs about Shakespeare’s villains posted by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Blogging Shakespeare and Finding Shakespeare, has raised interesting questions about what that word “villain”means. The dictionary definition is a “person guilty or capable of great wickedness, … Continue reading →

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Catch some Shakespeare at a cinema near you

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

This summer’s going to be a good time to see some great Shakespeare productions, and you might be able to catch some of them without going any further than your local cinema. The idea of screening live or recorded theatre … Continue reading →

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