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...leading cause of alcoholism nowadays? Not the sordid living conditions that once led to "Gin Lane," say the editors of the British Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out, and Falstaff is eloquently scornful of them: 'Nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine...
...report gives a provisional figure (1,100 per 100,000 adults) for the proportional number of alcoholics in England and Wales, which is barely a quarter of the American figure. Enough of Sir John Falstaff may have lingered in our midst to mitigate the severity of the Nonconformist conscience and its characteristic personality conflicts...
Fustilarian was the word used by Falstaff to describe Hostess Quickly. It is "a comic formation based on fustilugs, and fustiluggery itself refers to fat and frowsiness, usually feminine. Fustilug [and] fus-tilarian certainly merit rediscovery . . . for application to a gross virago...
Jerry Kilty's Falstaff is superb. He dominates the stage with his boisterous amiability, and his cowardice is so patent that it almost seems a virtue. Perhaps it is the sympathy which Kilty arouses that makes Hal's rejection of him even harder to accept than usual...
...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...