Doll Tearsheet with Falstaff, detail of a painting by Eduard von Grützner
First appearance
Henry IV, Part 2
Created by
William Shakespeare
In-universe information
Gender
Female
Occupation
Prostitute
Religion
Christian
Nationality
English
Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2. She is a prostitute who frequents the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap. Doll is close friends with Mistress Quickly, the proprietress of the tavern, who procures her services for Falstaff.
Doll is noted for her wide repertoire of colourful insults and her sudden switches from wild tirades to sentimental intimacy and back again.
Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2. She is a prostitute who frequents the Boar's Head...
relationship with DollTearsheet, a prostitute, who gets into a fight with Ancient Pistol, Falstaff's ensign. After Falstaff ejects Pistol, Doll asks him about...
previously played the part of Kristin in a 2000 production. She played DollTearsheet in the BBC2 adaptations of Henry IV, Parts I and II. Peake wrote, directed...
now a widow). Mistress Quickly has a friendship of long standing with DollTearsheet, a prostitute who frequents the tavern, and protects her against aggressive...
to be nominated for an Academy Award. In 1960 she played prostitute DollTearsheet in the BBC's series of Shakespeare history plays An Age of Kings, acting...
disorder. The worthies are also mentioned in Henry IV, Part 2 in which DollTearsheet is so impressed by Falstaff's bravery in fighting Ancient Pistol that...
fight with Falstaff after an exchange of insults with the prostitute DollTearsheet, who calls him "the foul-mouth'dst rogue in England". Later, when Falstaff...
Keith Baxter as Prince Hal, John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as DollTearsheet, and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly. The script contains text...
On screen Characters Ancient Pistol Bardolph Charles VI Corporal Nym DollTearsheet Falstaff Fluellen Henry IV Henry V Prince Hal Owain Glyndŵr Owen Glendower...
lust, a lurid treatment of the question that is put to Falstaff as DollTearsheet fidgets on his knee: 'Is it not strange that desire should so many years...
Stonewatcher Marika / Vizike National Theatre 2005 Henry IV, Part 1 Lady Mortimer Henry IV, Part 2 DollTearsheet 2012 All New People Emma Duke of York's Theatre...
episode "Charlie Boy"), The Champions and Minder. She also appeared as DollTearsheet in a BBC TV version of Henry IV, Part II. She had recurring roles in...
On screen Characters Ancient Pistol Bardolph Charles VI Corporal Nym DollTearsheet Falstaff Fluellen Henry IV Henry V Prince Hal Owain Glyndŵr Owen Glendower...
learns that she has married Pistol. Pistol tells him to find prostitute DollTearsheet and marry her. Bardolph reconciles the two. The three of them join Henry's...
series An Age of Kings (1960), performing with her sister Hermione as DollTearsheet. In the original version of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75) she played...
Repertory Theatre, Birmingham 1997 Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2 Lady Percy/DollTearsheet The Old Vic, The Cut, London with English Touring Theatre 1998 Emma...
Jean-Louis Richard 1965 Viva Maria! Maria I Louis Malle Chimes at Midnight DollTearsheet Orson Welles 1966 Mademoiselle "Mademoiselle" Tony Richardson 1967 The...
Illinois, she performed in Shout! The Mod Musical, Shenandoah, Guys and Dolls as Miss Adelaide, and Fiddler on the Roof as Tzeitel. In 2009 Mueller performed...
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