Word: bardolph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet again some of Falstaff's wonderful cronies from the Henry plays: the red-nosed Bardolph (Edward Asner); the swaggering Pistol (Richard Easton); Nym (Severn Darden), a "fellow frights English out of his wits"; and the aged Justice Shallow (Will Geer...
...highway that has not been officially opened and therefore does not officially exist. As successful squatters, living on fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...
...other comic characters are all foils to Falstaff, and many, are treated as caricatures rather than as characterizations. Bardolph, whose "zeal burns in his nose," and Doll Tearsheet, "as common as the way between St. Alban's and London," both get inspired treatment. The other comic characters join vigorously in the numerous brawls, and seem to get a good deal...
Peto, Roger L. Butler '51; Bardolph, Tom N. Billings '54; Lady Percy, Joanna Brown '52; Lady Mortimer, Julia C. Unverferth '52; and Mistress Quickly, Mathilda Hills...