Sir John Oldcastle information

Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan play about John Oldcastle, a controversial 14th-/15th-century rebel and Lollard who was seen by some of Shakespeare's...

Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader. From 1409 to 1413, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Cobham, in the right...

The Oldcastle Revolt was a Lollard uprising directed against the Catholic Church and the English king, Henry V. The revolt was led by John Oldcastle, taking...

village Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards in the 15th century Sir John Oldcastle, a play...

the Lollard John Oldcastle, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare as John Falstaff. He was finally executed after the murder of Sir Christopher Talbot...

laugh this sport o'er by a country fire; Sir John and all". Shakespeare originally named Falstaff "John Oldcastle", a real historical personage who died...

such during their lifetimes; they were men of discretion, and unlike Sir John Oldcastle years later, rarely gave any hint of open rebellion. However, they...

King John is not included in the Henriad because it is said to have a style that is of a different order than the other history plays. King John has great...

plans. It is also portrayed in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle (c.1600) and in William Kenrick's Falstaff's Wedding (1760). The Southampton...

Giles High Street. In 1414, St Giles Fields served as the centre of Sir John Oldcastle's abortive proto-Protestant Lollard uprising directed against the Catholic...

the old and experienced Baron Thomas Camoys. The archers were commanded by Sir Thomas Erpingham, another elderly veteran. It is likely that the English...

Prince Hal, who was called Sir John Oldcastle. The descendants of the real Oldcastle complained, so the name was changed to Sir John Falstaff, under which...

was first related by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531. The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the...

high tower and was built between 1432 and 1446 by Sir John Fastolf, who (along with Sir John Oldcastle) was an inspiration for William Shakespeare's Falstaff...

Falstaff first appeared as "Sir John Oldcastle". Weever's work is influenced by John Bale's 1544 biography of Oldcastle, which presents him as a proto-Protestant...

168 (Umich/eebo). P. Corbin and D. Sedge (eds), The Oldcastle Controversy: "Sir John Oldcastle, Part 1" and "The Famous Victories of Henry V", The Revels...

Christopher Marlowe Antonio's Revenge by John Marston The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford Troilus and Cressida was listed...

"Letters of Wotton". In Smith, Logan Pearsall (ed.). The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton. Vol. Two. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 32–33. Jane...

weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills" ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60). Falstaff: "My own knee? ... and swore the devil...

of Falstaff (he was originally the historic Sir John Oldcastle, which presumably did not please Oldcastle's descendants) forced Shakespeare to rename the...

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