Falstaff on tour: county, town and country in the late Elizabethan theatre

Neil Rhodes

doi:10.1111/rest.12838

Falstaff on tour: county, town and country in the late Elizabethan theatre

Neil Rhodes^*

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Abstract

Why does Falstaff travel to York via Gloucestershire in Henry the Fourth, part two? And why does Shakespeare interrupt his second tetralogy of history plays to take his most famous comic character to Windsor in the Merry Wives? This article uses Falstaff's tour of England in these two plays to explore an idea of the country founded upon local identities rather than on the overarching appeal of nationhood. Drawing upon chorography and social history, it focusses on the association of people and place and offers a view of England from the ground up rather than through the more imposing structures of political narrative and symbolic form.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	384-398
Number of pages	15
Journal	Renaissance Studies
Volume	37
Issue number	3
Early online date	5 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12838
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

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England
Gloucestershire
Windsor

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