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Fallstaff Friend of Fatherfigure

Date Submitted: 02/21/2000 05:59:33
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 4 pages (1016 words)
Views: 180016

Falstaff: Friend or Father Figure? When studying the characters of Shakespeare's Henry IV, one can not help but observe Falstaff. Falstaff is considered by many to be one of the greatest comic inventions ever. Critics have called Falstaff everything ranging from a buffoon to "an instance of the predominance of intellectual power" (Coleridge cited in Hemingway 418). He is by far one of the most dynamic characters ever constructed by Shakespeare. Yet, "the question persists, 'wherein …

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