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...Clapp '60 gave the first of his series of lectures on Shakespeare last evening on the first part of "King Henry IV." He outlined the main scheme of the plot and discussed very fully the characters of Henry IV, and his son, and, with special care, that of Falstaff...
Shakespeare's attitude toward Falstaff was emphasized. It has been said by critics and others that Shakespeare loved a rogue, but this is not true, since his moral attitude toward Falstaff was one of disapproval. He represents Falstaff as he was and gives him credit for his wonderfully brilliant wit and sense of humor, but he also shows him as unprincipled, selfish, egotistical and vulgar, and, in the end, the prince sees through Falstaff's frivolity and sham, recognizes his utter worthlessness and condemns him as unfit for the society of true...
SHAKESPEARE CLUB. - There will be a meeting on Thursday evening, April 11, in 11 Hollis, at 7.30 o'clock. William F. Wilbur '96 will read a paper on "Falstaff" and the play of "King Henry IV," Part I, will be continued. A full attendance is requested...
SHAKESPEARE CLUB. - There will be a meeting on Thursday evening, April 11, in 11 Hollis, at 7.30 o'clock. William F. Wilbur '96 will read a paper on "Falstaff" and the play of "King Henry IV," Part I, will be continued. A full attendance is requested...
...presence. He is as real to us as the people about us in our daily life, perhaps more real than many of them. We feel with absolute certainty that Hamlet lived, and that he died. There is perhaps no other character in Shakespeare, with the exception of Sir John Falstaff, whom we can not picture as being even now alive. But the death of Hamlet we feel as we do that of a friend...