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Originally Posted by Curtis Gale Weeks
I've read criticism of Shakespeare, and long before I started reading the plays. The extremely high praise of Falstaff (Harold Bloom's especially) did not match my experience of Falstaff, who I thought was rather boring and not as transcendent as others thought. My suspicion is that Falstaff really needs to be seen live in a performance, which I have never done. Either that, or I still misread him.
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Curtis, you can watch Orson Welles in "Chimes at Midnight" on Youtube.
This is a cut-and-paste version of the Henry IV plays and no doubt loathed by purists, but Welles was one hell of a Falstaff.