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...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...
...indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...