The Merry Wives of Windsor | Falstaff (Sir John Falstaff)
Falstaff is the play's central character. Falstaff also appears in Henry IV, Part One and Two, where he is the comic friend and a kind of surrogate father to Prince Hal. When Hal becomes King Henry V, in a famous and poignant moment, he rejects Falstaff in public: ''I know thee not, old man'' (Henry IV, Part Two, V.v.47).
Falstaff's role in the Henry plays has been the subject of much critical and dramatic debate; he is a complex figure who has immense power over language and whose conduct raises important moral questions not only about himself but about the...
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