Falstaff and Mistress Quickly from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Francis Philip Stephanoff, c. 1840
First appearance
Henry IV, part I
Last appearance
Henry V
Created by
William Shakespeare
In-universe information
Nickname
Nell
Occupation
Innkeeper
Religion
Christian
Nationality
English
Mistress Nell Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare. She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate.
The character appears in four plays: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Mistress Nell Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare. She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern...
Falstaff, provided by a descendant of MistressQuickly's sister. She had inherited them from MistressQuickly herself, who kept them in a drawer in the...
Caius – a French physician. John Rugby – a servant to Doctor Caius. MistressQuickly – servant to Doctor Caius. Robert Shallow – a Country Justice. Abraham...
UK tour in the autumn of 2005. In 2012, Dobson played the role of MistressQuickly in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merry Wives of Windsor...
1988 A Handful of Dust Mrs. Beaver Charles Sturridge 1989 Henry V MistressQuickly Kenneth Branagh 1995 Jack and Sarah Margaret Tim Sullivan GoldenEye...
played Rita in Belong at Royal Court Theatre. In 2013, she played MistressQuickly and Alice in Henry V starring Jude Law at the Noël Coward Theatre....
2012, Walters appeared in the BBC Two production The Hollow Crown as MistressQuickly in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II. In the summer of 2012, she...
hides, Dr. Caius, his servant John Rugby, and MistressQuickly appear. Caius hopes for MistressQuickly's assistance in winning over Anne Page. Simple...
last born in the nineteenth century to win an Oscar. She appeared as MistressQuickly in Orson Welles' film Chimes at Midnight (1965) and was directed by...
Old Lady 10th Anniversary Concert 1995 The Merry Wives of Windsor MistressQuickly 1997 Into the Woods Jack’s Mother 10th Anniversary Concert 2002 A Little...
at the Boar's Head Tavern, contrary to the wishes of the hostess, MistressQuickly. Falstaff tells her that Pistol is his "ancient" (ensign). He gets...
the Shrew at the Aldwych. In 2014, she played the tavern landlady MistressQuickly in the RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two. 2000: London Evening...
Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet and Margaret Rutherford as MistressQuickly. The script contains text from five of Shakespeare's plays; primarily...
frequents the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap. Doll is close friends with MistressQuickly, the proprietress of the tavern, who procures her services for Falstaff...
define the word, but indicates that the plays in which the character, MistressQuickly, hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern, appears include "The English Henriad"...
almost invariably spoken by comic ill-educated lower class characters. MistressQuickly, the inn-keeper associate of Falstaff in several Shakespeare plays...
history plays An Age of Kings, acting alongside her sister Angela as MistressQuickly. In 1963, she was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress...
appeared in a wide range of stage productions, including the role of MistressQuickly in an Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor...
Richard III Queen Margaret Royal Shakespeare Company 1985 Henry V MistressQuickly 1986 When We Are Married Maria Helliwell Whitehall Theatre, London...
"loves" their wives. In Henry V we learn that Nym has been courting MistressQuickly. He gets into an argument with Pistol when he learns that she has married...
she was betrothed to Richard at age eight, but has since become Henry's mistress. A film version was made in 1968. Productions have been put on by Shakespearean...
Kim Medcalf and Belinda Lang. She finished off 2006 with the role of MistressQuickly in the RSC's new musical The Merry Wives, a version of The Merry Wives...
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