Morgann's Essay on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff,

by Maurice Morgann

Publisher: London H. Frowde Publication date: 1912 Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Essays, Classics

185 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1777

About the author

Maurice Morgann (1725-1802) was a colonial administrator and Shakespearean literary scholar. He is best known for An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.

Reviews

[Ian Banks]

This was a lot of fun: Shakespeare’s Falstaff has long been considered one of the premier comic figures in all his plays. Mr Morgan takes the viewpoint that he is actually a lot braver and heroic than the plays suggest and backs it up with evidence from the scripts. If you like this sort of reevaluation of fictional characters, this should be right up your alley.

[Daniel Wright]

Fun, frivolous and facetious. Morgann's Wikipedia page has a good summary of the content and context.

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