Wednesday, November 13, 2013

For Thursday, Nov. 14

Please read all of Act I, sc. 2.  Hal's & Falstaff's dialogue -- largely in prose -- should feel similar to the words of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew:  it's back to the language of taverns, brawls, insults, & carousing.

Here's my rough time-line.  Henry IV (Bolingbroke) usurped the English throne in, or anyway near, the year 1400 (...and yes, I did misspell the word 'Bolingbroke' in my crude chart below -- sorry!):