{"product_id":"falstaff-book-robert-nye-9780241894293","title":"Falstaff","description":"\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Hawthornden Prize and the \u003c\/i\u003eGuardian \u003ci\u003eFiction Prize\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most beloved comic figure in English literature decides that history hasn't done him justice--it's time for him to tell the whole unbuttoned story, his way. Irascible and still lecherous at eighty-one, Falstaff spins out these outrageously bawdy memoirs as an antidote to legend, and in the process manages to recreate his own. This splendidly written novel is a feast, opening wide the look and feel of another age and bringing Shakespeare's Falstaff to life in a totally new way. Like Jack Falstaff himself, it's sprawling, vivid, oversized--big as life. We return in an instant to an England that was ribald, violent, superstitious, coursing with high spirits and a fresh sense of national purpose. We see what history and the Bard of Avon overlooked or avoided: what really happened that celebrated night at the windmill when Falstaff and Justice Shallow heard the chimes at midnight; who really killed Hotspur; how many men fell at the Battle of Agincourt; what actually transpired at the coronation of Henry V (Harry the Prig); and just what it was that made the wives of Windsor so very merry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFalstaff tells all about Prince Hal, John of Gaunt (that maniac), Pistol, Bardolph, Doll Tearsheet, and Jane Nightwork. At the same time, his racy narrative offers us a tapestry of the Middle Ages: the Black Death and May Day; an expedition to Ireland and a pilgrimage to the Holy Land; nights at the Boar's Head; the splendor of London Bridge; and hundreds of other sights and sounds and people zestfully recalled between scabrous opinions and irreverent meditations--in sum, the very flavor of a great age. The voice is unmistakably Falstaff's and his great drama swaggers, laughs, and shouts across every page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565794500881,"sku":"GOR002735669","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643245207825,"sku":"GOR007123309","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50896376267025,"sku":"GOR004010253","price":14.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241894298.jpg?v=1750844435","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/falstaff-book-robert-nye-9780241894293","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}