Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. Round and glorious, tradition holds that Shakespeare wrote the part for his second comedian, a fat man, John Heminges, who played a bold, bawdy humor of a John Candy sort. An alternative theory is that Falstaff was written for Will Kemp, the clown of Shakespeare's company. The original actor was later succeeded by John Lowin, another portly comic actor. Flush with flatulent humor, Falstaff still managed to embody a kind of depth common to Shakespeare's tricky comedy. In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character "Hostess", possibly the bar-lady Mistress Quickly, who describes his body in terms that echo the death of Socrates.

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William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright who has a reputation as one of the greatest of all writers in the English language and in Western literature, as well as one of the world's pre-eminent dramatists....

John Heminges: John Heminges was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. With Henry Condell, he was instrumental in preparing the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623....

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Falstaff's Escape	Falstaff and His Friends	Henry IV Falstaff and Prince Hal	Various Comic Actors (Including Falstaff) on Stage
The Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff Concealed by the Merry Wives	Mistress Quickly Nym and Bardolph from Shakespeare's Falstaff Plays