 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 196 pages
...he would have to be to expect to be believed. In part two, after he meets Shallow, he soliloquizes: "I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions." Characters in comedy normally do not have enough scope to become... | |
 | Robert D. Pelton - Religion - 1989 - 334 pages
...Bibliography 291 Index 305 .00° oc o HI V * II w . < o i_ <n «< ui ai CHAPTER ONE Interpreting the Trickster I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter. FALSTAFF (Henry IV, 2 : V,i) Yes, by God, you need technique to make a good job out of life. All you... | |
 | Orson Welles - Performing Arts - 1988 - 356 pages
...third word a lie. SHALLOW (off): Sir John! FALSTAFF: 1 come, Master Shallow, 1 come. (To the Page.) 1 will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter for the wearing out of six fashions. You shall see him laugh. (Falstaff begins to laugh.) DAVY (entering... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...is also an element of the arrogant aristocrat's eagerness to visit court contempt on his inferiors: "I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Henry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions." Falstaff's greatness as a character derives... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...manipulable operation. He inhabits and bridges many contexts and profits from his mobility like a merchant: "I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions" (2H4 5.1.75), he says overoptimistically in Gloucestershire. He can... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...substitutes like Justice Shallow, Falstaff keeps thinking about the Prince as his absent audience: "I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions . . . and 'a shall laugh without intervallums. . . . O, you shall see... | |
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It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another : therefore let men take heed of their company. 
