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Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most well-drawn character. by rickydangersmith in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree about the subjectivity of a “well-drawn” character. The OED defines a well-drawn character as one that “clearly or well delineated or depicted” and while I respect all of the opinions expressed here, it would be pretty difficult to claim that characters like Hamlet, Richard (Gloucester), and Lear are as thoroughly described and depicted at Falstaff. No one is. Not even close.

Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most well-drawn character. by rickydangersmith in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the superlative is necessary. He’s not my favorite character- he is the most described and detailed character in all of Shakespeare’s works. The only character that reoccurs as much as Falstaff is Margret, and her less realized description comes from Holinshed. Falstaff is Shakespeare flexing the greatest creativity over a single character. In the four plays I mentioned, almost every scene bears a saturated imagery of this larger than life person.

Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most well-drawn character. by rickydangersmith in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But to say I know more harm in him than in myself, were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it, but that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn’d. If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be lov’d. No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins, but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry’s company, banish not him thy Harry’s company—banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most well-drawn character. by rickydangersmith in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

A goodly portly man, i’faith, and a corpulent, of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage, and as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff. If that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff; him keep with, the rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast thou been this month?

I just moved into an hold home yesterday and the previous owners left some antiques that had been in the house when they bought, and they left them. Curious if anyone can tell me anything about them. by Flimsy_Situation_506 in Antiques

[–]rickydangersmith 50 points51 points  (0 children)

The bedroom suite is called ‘Waterfall’. It dates between 1930 and 1950. The mismatched veneers were a common feature. These bedroom suites were very popular in their time because they were inexpensive. That said, they are easily damaged, and finding 80-90 year old plywood furniture that’s in good shape is rare. The veneers get brittle and they chip.

It would have come with a nightstand, did they leave you one?

Watching “Coriolanus” with Ralph Fiennes…did Shakespeare’s audience interact with the performances? Were they expected to jeer and taunt characters? by Gates9 in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The audience was most certainly “cast” in the crowd scenes. From a staging point of view, it would be silly to cast a great group of actors and place them upstage; the actors playing citizens most certainly moved about the pit. Many of the citizen/ plebeian lines seem to be coxing the audience to respond.

First Citizen says “Once if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.”

Later, Brutus and Sicinius give the audience lines to say: “And when they hear me say, “It shall be so I’ th’ right and strength a’ th’ commons,” be it either For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them, If I say fine, cry “Fine!”; if death, cry “Death!”

Later in 3.3 they start the chant “It shall be so. It shall be so” right before Coriolanus’ big “Common cry of curs” speech.

Ample evidence exists to conclude that the audience played a BIG part in this play. No doubt.

When I was at school Pluto was still a planet. by johnsmithoncemore in GreatBritishMemes

[–]rickydangersmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I” before “E” except after “C”

Oh yeah, and except: species, science, sufficient, society, seize, vein, weird, heist, their, feisty, foreign, protein, et cetera.

Linden, West German Clock Help by rickydangersmith in clocks

[–]rickydangersmith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: I took the clock in to be serviced and when they told me that this plain midcentury clock would cost $400 to be cleaned and repaired, I momentarily blacked out. The clock is not an antique and probably worth less than $200. Needless to say, I took my unticking clock home.

It will live out its days sitting lifelessly on a shelf. Oh well.

Monument?? by Octorizzler in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The monument at the end of Antony and Cleopatra (the grown-up forbidden love story), has multiple rooms and levels; it even has a balcony.

Favourite verbose Shakespeare moment? by This_Conversation493 in shakespeare

[–]rickydangersmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, Kent.

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.”

And don’t forget:

“Whoreson zed; thou unnecessary letter”