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As Henry IV, John Gielgud is regally heartbreaking; As Prince Hal/Henry V, Keith Baxter is the ultimate ambitious politician; and Jeanne Moreau is the most sensuously understanding Doll Tearsheet, especially memorable in the moving impotence scene with Sir John Falstaff, which Welles (heavily made-up and padded) does as the role he was born to play.
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As Henry IV, John Gielgud is regally heartbreaking; As Prince Hal/Henry V, Keith Baxter is the ultimate ambitious politician; and Jeanne Moreau is the most sensuously understanding Doll Tearsheet, especially memorable in the moving impotence scene with Sir John Falstaff, which Welles (heavily made-up and padded) does as the role he was born to play.
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As Henry IV, John Gielgud is regally heartbreaking; As Prince Hal/Henry V, Keith Baxter is the ultimate ambitious politician; and Jeanne Moreau is the most sensuously understanding Doll Tearsheet, especially memorable in the moving impotence scene with Sir John Falstaff, which Welles (heavily made-up and padded) does as the role he was born to play.
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He whose intellect and sensibilities inspired him with nothing but contempt and loathing for the mass of mankind, the aristocrat who in a dozen plays sneers at the greasy caps and foul breaths of the multitude, fell in love with Dogberry, and Bottom, Quickly and Tearsheet, clod and clown, pimp and prostitute, for the laughter they afforded.
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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It begins: “In Shakespeare all the elements of womanhood are holy”; and goes on to eulogize the instinct of chastity which all his women possess, and this in spite of Doll Tearsheet, Tamora, Cressida, Goneril, Regan, Cleopatra, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and many other frail and fascinating figures.
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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We think of Swift, in an earlier period of the century, enclosing to Stella some recklessly gross verses of his own upon Bolingbroke, and habitually writing to fine ladies in a way that Falstaff might have thought too bad for Doll Tearsheet.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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He whose intellect and sensibilities inspired him with nothing but contempt and loathing for the mass of mankind, the aristocrat who in a dozen plays sneers at the greasy caps and foul breaths of the multitude, fell in love with Dogberry, and Bottom, Quickly and Tearsheet, clod and clown, pimp and prostitute, for the laughter they afforded.
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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Falstaff's attachment for Doll Tearsheet lasted many years, but did not lead to matrimony.
Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891
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We think of Swift, in an earlier period of the century, enclosing to Stella some recklessly gross verses of his own upon Bolingbroke, and habitually writing to fine ladies in a way that Falstaff might have thought too bad for Doll Tearsheet.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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Tearsheet, and drawers, and carters, and Bardolph, and Pistol, and copper captains, and all Shakespeare's crowd of people hanging loose on the town?
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
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