Word: falstaff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Meg Delong was in high school in the northern Georgia town of Gainesville, she was a serious student with her eye on college. Many of her girlfriends worked toward the same goal. But her younger brother and most of her male friends seemed more inclined to act like Falstaff than to study Shakespeare. "A lot of guys thought studying was for girls," says DeLong, now a junior French major at the University of Georgia in Athens. "They were really intelligent, but they would goof off, and it seemed to be accepted by the teachers...
When in the first part of "Henry IV" the prince asks Falstaff what manner of man he is, Bloom, as Falstaff, replied "A goodly portly man, i'faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some...
Bloom, quite literally the image of Falstaff, caused an eruption of laughter from the audience...
Bloom writes at the end of his essay on Falstaff in Shakespeare that "Falstaff needs an audience, and never fails to find it. We need Falstaff, because we have so few images of authentic vitaliam...
With his performance last night as Falstaff, Bloom found an audience, and the audience found a vital image of Falstaff...