Home > The Oxford Companion to English Literature > Gadshill
Gadshill
Gadshill,near Rochester, the scene of Prince Hal 's joke robbery of Falstaff in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV (ii. ii); confusingly, one of Falstaff's companions also has the name Gadshill. Gadshill was the home of Dickens in his later years.
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
- The Oxford Dictionary of Economics
- The Oxford Companion to American Literature
- The Oxford Companion to American Military History
- The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
- The Oxford Companion to English Literature
- The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
- The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
- The Oxford Dictionary of Art
- Oxford Dictionary of Sociology
- Oxford Dictionary of World History
- Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology
