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is marvelous not lack opportunities to talk about Shakespeare, that man all-terrain universal scene. In this case, the excuse is the representation of Falstaff these days takes place in Madrid, the Teatro Valle-Inclán . Falstaff, who never had the honor of seeing your name lead on some piece of English, is a character that swarms like he owned the home for some of his works, including Henry IV (first and second part) and in comedy The Merry Wives of Windsord. Apparently, Queen Elizabeth, fascinated by the character, asked the author to give him a chance to stay alive in one piece.
The historical pieces, Sir John Falstaff is the companion partying and revelry of Prince Henry, called one day to succeed the throne from his father, Henry IV, if not prevent the rebels led by Mortimer, which see their ascent to the throne after the death of Ricado II was illegitimate. The King was concerned that the prince spends more time in the tavern "The Boar's Head" which dealt with the problems of the court. In the play, which is set in the time of Henry IV, Falstaff plays the seducer of married women but you get the backfire. Juanito
Falstaff is a symbol of the flesh: is overweight, she loves to eat, the wine of the Canary Islands and will pirra sherry. TOO likes the women, boastful and untruthful ladroncete. His "catechism" makes him prefer life to honor:
'[...]¿ honor is that you can replace a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Honor, does not it, therefore, no skill in surgery? No. What is honor? One word. What is that word honor? Air. An expensive ornament! Who owns it? The who died on Wednesday. Do you feel? No. Do you hear? No. [...] (William Shakespeare, Complete Works , Tragedies, study, translation and notes Astrana Luis Marín, Madrid, Aguilar, 2003 , pg. 631)
Rosich Andrés Lima and Marc have done, in my opinion, a great version of this Falstaff. Contrary to what may be suggested by modern clothes or tone of "show" television scenes, Lima has shown a very faithful Falstaff that Shakespeare created embodied in the actor Peter Casablanca, who interprets it estupendísimamente. All axes dramatic Enrique IV are present in the adaptation, and the scenes most acclaimed ("Reid", rather, there was no applause until the end) are also in Shakespeare's "slip linguae "Dona Rauda (Carmen Machi), the protagonist's outbursts, the troops accompanying Falstaff (as my grandfather would say, the army of Pancho Villa), the interpretation in Galician-Welsh ... Even
, Rumor, who serves as host and narrator throughout the work or taking any other third paper, such as welding, for example, is a character who leaves the second part of Henry IV. Most doubles character actors, and the change takes place before the public. Lima takes a lot out of these actions, almost "play list" as the fight a "slow motion" that develops between Percy and supporters of the king, or the presence of the actor-audience on stage (we saw this in the last Shakespeare in Lima, his Titus Andronicus, in this case with Animalario company, rather unequal outcomes).
What's this paunchy, fun-loving character who does not even begin to look at his knees? Something will, as though Shakespeare was denied a work under his name, gave him a Verdi opera ( LolaMu , I threw the glove) and Orson Welles, the great man of cinema, a film . Astrana Marin said in the preface to the edition cited before Falstaff is
[...] "the greatest humorous view on the scene and second in the literary order. We noted with this that the rule corresponds to Sancho Panza Sancho Panza Falstaff is the English [...] (opus cit., pg. 66).
A seducer, a man with grace, this Fastaff.
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