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...Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost. That's the problem give an emender an inch and he'll take a mile. Do we really need Shakespeare translated into Basic English? What happened...
...historical plot, the three main characters are Henry IV, his son Hal, and the Percy rebel known as Hotspur. At the time covered by the play, the actual King was only 36, and the other two were a generation apart at 16 and 39, respectively. Following the lead of one of his sources. Daniel's epic poem The Civil Wars and of course his own dramatic instinct. Shakespeare made the King older and the two rivals both about...
...John Falstaff. The old knight is as nimble of wit as his belly is full of sack, a braggart, a liar, a thief, a cynic and a coward, but with all that an irresistibly endearing tub of bubbling jollity. Early on, Falstaff (Joss Ackland) chides the heir apparent Prince Hal (Gerard Murphy), who has made the Boar's Head Tavern his home away from the castle, for leading him into evil ways...
King Henry (Patrick Stewart) fears the reverse, that his scapegrace son has been corrupted by dissolute companions. He is depressed by the thought that when Hal ascends the throne, the realm will dissolve in chaos. Chaos abounds as it is. Scotland and Wales are in rebellion, and the noble families who helped Henry to overthrow Richard II are now conspiring to overthrow him. Paradoxically, the King admires one of those conspirators, Harry Percy (Timothy Dalton), known as Hotspur. He so cherishes Hotspur's valor that he wishes...
...chinos, basketball sneakers and a pink Lacoste shirt, Michael Schubert paces about the Hasty Pudding Club's cluttered office. "I think everyone in the world has one chance to do what they want to do," he says fervently. "Hal Prince has got to listen to me once, Stephen Sondheim will have to listen to me once...