Links Database: Henry IV
- What "Maior" is Falstaff Denying?
- http://www.shakespeare-usa.com/Maior.htm
- Forward , Geoffrey G. "What 'Maior' is Falstaff Denying?"Shakespeare Quarterly41.3 (1990): 336-43. Falstaff, inHenry IV, Part 1says "I deny your Maior" in response to Prince Hal's attack, "And thou a naturall Coward, without instinct" (2.4.464-65); Forward explores how this "Maior" has proved problematic for readers, actors, and editors and provides his own gloss/reading:
- keywords: falstaff, 1H4, henry, maior
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