Excerpt from Falstaff and Equity: An Interpretation

"I have so much to say in behalf of that Falstaff." 1 Henry IV. Act II. Scene 4.

" ... the purpose of playing ... to hold, as "t were, the mirror up to nature; to show ... the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure." Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.

"A jest"s prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it." Loves Labour"s Lost, Act V. Scene 2.

"On sait bien que les comedies ne sont faites que pour etre jouees, et je ne conseille de lire celle-ci qu"aux personnes qui ont des yeux pour decouvrir, dans la lecture, tout le jeu du theatre." Moliere, L"Amour Medecin, Au Lecteur.

" ... wherein fat Falstaf

Hath a great scene: the image of the jest

I"ll show you here at large." Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV. Scene 6.

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