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...then decided that the more Falstaffian comedy he includes, the better American audiences will like it (he may be right about this). So he has imported Doll Tearsheet from 2 Henry IV and interpolated a low-life scene from that play. And just before the end of the show, after the climactic Battle of Shrewsbury, Coe brings on Falstaff to declaim his long paean to the wonders of sherry sack--which also comes from the later play--and thus mars Shakespeare's carefully wrought conclusion. There are, too, some lines that have been moved from their proper place...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Mixed Bag at Stratford | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

Author Fraser, 56, an excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee-Panky | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Miner), her best friend and a kind of Falstaffian mother-hen realist, knows better, partly because she has read the morning society news announcing Ellis' fiancee. It is not Dorothea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Women Alone | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Gone from that team are captain Dan Waldman--one of the great names in Harvard tennis history--then-freshman Dan Gerken, and Falstaffian doubles player Cliff Adler...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Stick, Racquet Wielders Head for Mason-Dixon | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

Robert Carrier, 54, a Falstaffian fellow from Tarry town, N.Y.. who owns two of England's most sumptuous restaurants, Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk and London's Carrier's: "Every time you travel, come back with a dish, not a postcard. Learn to cook the secrets of the world and make them your own by adding curiosity and daring. Toss aside all hoity-toity rules and regulations. When entertaining, make only two dishes, which you must know. Try out anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Tips from the Toques | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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