Though what William Shakespeare’s greatest creation truly is will be debated on for centuries to come, Orson Welles thought it was the fictional character of Sir John Falstaff, and played the role himself in his monochromatic ode to the Bard of Avon, “Chimes at Midnight.” Shakespeare features the portly, bumptious Falstaff in three of his plays (Henry IV Pts. I & II, The Merry Wives of Windsor) as a bumbling suitor to several women and a friend and aid to young Prince Hal (who would later be Henry V). Welles’s depiction of the story focuses on the Henry plays, and features the legendary Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV and Keith Baxter as his son Prince Hal. The ever-present Jeanne Moreau co-stars, though the focus is on Welles in the role he was perhaps always meant to play. Comparisons have been made comparing Welles to Falstaff in real life,...
- 12/23/2015
- by Samantha Vacca
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