Shakespeare’s greatest history play is the ten-act drama constituted by King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Judged as a single work, this vast Falstaffiad is one of Shakespeare’s major achievements, akin to Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Winter’s Tale. The four high tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth stand a little apart, in their own cosmos, as does The Tempest. The Falstaffiad is at the center of Shakespeare’s work, and its superb protagonist, Sir John Falstaff, rivals Shakespeare’s other triumphs in the invention of the human: Hamlet, Rosalind, Iago, Lear, Macbeth, Cleopatra. Criticism, particularly in our century, is frequently both inaccurate and unkind about Falstaff. That is because the brilliant and uncanny wit outfaces and outrages his undertakers. [download]
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