Falstaff : Sir John, in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor & King Henry IV.
... the comic characters of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain who desperately tried to be a 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme'. The humour of Falstaff is based on "the chasm of contrast between his ungainly, inglorious person and the new glory of Elizabethan England." Prof. Stephen Leacock's remarks are worth recalling in this connection: "Falstaff runs true to the line in which humour... humour lies in that we don't dislike him: on the contrary, we feel we could enjoy his society. Most of us would rather take Falstaff out fishing or put him up at our golf club than we would Antonio or the Doge of Venice or King Lear. He'd make a bigger hit." 1 And what about Monsieur Jourdain, that delectable creation of the unsurpassed genius of comedy, Moliere? "Polish me", entreated Jourdain who ...
... Nature, was the one poet who never condescended to a copy, a photograph or a shadow. The reader who sees in Falstaff, Macbeth, Lear or Hamlet imitations of Nature, has either no inner eye of the soul or has been hypnotised by a formula. 149) Where in material Nature wilt thou find Falstaff, Macbeth or Lear? Shadows & hints of them she possesses but they themselves tower above her. 150) There are ...
... Nature, was the one poet who never condescended to a copy, a photograph or a shadow. The reader who sees in Falstaff, Macbeth, Lear or Hamlet imitations of Nature, has either no inner eye of the soul or has been hypnotised by a formula. 149—Where in material Nature wilt thou find Falstaff, Macbeth or Lear? Shadows and hints of them she possesses, but they themselves tower over her. Page 249 ...
... son's creations but not at all like his son. He could be like Hamlet or Macbeth or Falstaff or Romeo — at least some sort of Romeo he must have been if Shakespeare was at all to get born — but we do not imagine that Shakespeare's father was like Shakespeare who was the literary father of Hamlet and Macbeth and Falstaff and Romeo. So when Chaucer is described as the Father of English Poetry he may be ...
... of remarkable humorous characters created by the great masters of fiction. Some of the more well-known names in this field are: Cervantes's Don Quixote with Sancho Panza beside him, Shakespeare's Falstaff, Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain the 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme', Dickens's Mr. Picwick, Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Wode-house's Jeeves, Harry Leon Wilson's Mr. Ruggles, etc. Here is a small piece ...
... new in that." 47 (6)"N also!!! Great illogical heavens! Obviously if N becomes a supramental, everybody can!" 48 (7)"Good Lord! you are not part of the world." 49 "Good Lord! what a Falstaff of a fountain-pen!" 30 (8)"O Lord God! again despair!" 51 (9)"Glorious! You must begin glittering at once..." 52 (10)"Gracious heavens! you are really a poet." 53 (11)"Lord ...
... will suit you best, though the nib may not, and I send it to you that your writing may flow in rivers from the pen, in my book, not in a few stingy lines. SRI AUROBINDO: Good Lord! what a Falstaff of a fountain pen! But it is not the pen that is responsible for the stinginess, the criminal is Time and with a fat pen he can be as niggardly as with a lean one. MYSELF: Please do write ...
... (chitra) entirety of the ideality in the tapas siddhi (akasha) Page 466 Unintelligible lipis 1) Leo. Yorkshire. 2) Shakespeare —often repeated 3) any other elsewhere 4) Falstaff. Silhouettes occurred again on the wall (clear—or vague-clear),—a woman standing on a square carpet, a lady well-dressed with flounced skirts, & in the akasha, figures of women. At night dense ...
... best though the nib may not; I am sending it to you so that your writing in my notebook may flow in rivers from the pen, not in a few stingy lines." Sri Aurobindo: "Good Lord! What a Falstaff of a fountain pen! But it is not the pen that is responsible for the stinginess; the criminal is Time and with a fat pen he can be as niggardly as with a lean one." Now we come to ...
... [From a report of a meeting with Sri Aurobindo:] "He laughed till his body shook; it was rollicking...." This won't do. It is a too exhilarating over-description. It calls up to my mind a Falstaff or a Chesterton; it does not fit in my style of hilarity. It is long since my laughter has been continuous and uncontrolled like that. For that to be true I shall have to wait till the Year 1, S.D ...
... size and everything will suit you best though the nib may not. And I send it to you that your writing may flow in rivers from the pen, in my book, not in a few stingy lines! Good Lord! what a Falstaff of a fountain-pen. But it is not the pen that is responsible for the stinginess; the criminal is Time and with a fat pen he can be as niggardly as with a lean one. Amal says that to follow ...
... jutting skeleton. She says that you are less shockingly plump than when you came, but that is all. But if you take butter and oil together, to say nothing of cheerfulness, what will you become? Remember Falstaff. 34 We understand that Mother asked Shanta not to take cod-liver oil with milk or water as it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Mother told her it might spoil her taste for milk—but did ...
... having gone through Dilip Kumar's transcript, Sri Aurobindo deleted the description and wrote on the margin: "This won't do. It is a too exhilarating over-description. It calls up to my mind a Falstaff or a Chesterton; it does not fit in my style of hilarity. It is long since my laughter has been continuous and uncontrolled like that. For that to be true I shall have to wait till the year 1, S.D ...
... jutting skeleton. She says that you are less shockingly plump than when you came, but that is all. But if you take butter and oil together, to say nothing of cheerfulness, what will you become? Remember Falstaff. MYSELF: Less shockingly plump! Good gracious, was I ever plump? Mother has only to see my bare body and exclaim, 'Oh, doctor like that!..-etc..-' SRI AUROBINDO: It's your clothes ...
... you best though the nib may not; I am sending the pen to you so that your writing in my notebook may flow in rivers from it, not in a few stingy lines." SRI AUROBINDO: "Good Lord! What a Falstaff of a fountain pen! But it is not the pen that is responsible for the stinginess; the criminal is Time and with a fat pen he can be as niggardly as with a lean one." * * * Now we come to the ...
... can be described in the phrase of Goethe "Poetic fictions and truths" for the element of truth is small and that of poetic fiction stupendous. It is like the mass of ale to the modicum of bread in Falstaff's tavern bill. In fact it is almost the whole. 1945 × This statement, dictated by Sri Aurobindo in response to ...
... abundant imagination, inference and hypothesis that the great poets and writers of fiction like Shakespeare and Defoe would have to acknowledge defeat before this grand master of the art... just as Falstaff's hotel bill showed a penny-worth of bread and countless gallons of wine, similarly in Norton's plot "an ounce of proof was mixed with tons of inference and suggestion".... If Norton was a creative ...
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