They swear by their salvation that though I’m only the Prince of Wales I’m already the king of courtesy and they tell me straight that I’m not stuck-up like Falstaff but a straight sort of guy, one of the lads, a good fellow – for God’s sake, that’s what they call me. You know something? I’ve become the sworn blood brother of three barmen and can call them all by their Christian names – Tom, Dick and Francis. ‘With three or four idiots in a crowd of some sixty to eighty drunkards. ‘Where have you been, Hal?’ Poins said as they went downstairs. The Prince entered the Boar’s Head and went up to Poins’s room. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.The term "anachronism" is fully justified here. So Shakespeare has Falstaff use a word that was not introduced into the language until roughly 170 years after the Battle of Shrewsbury. 1570 from the Middle French pistolet (ca. Wikipedia explains that "the English word was introduced in ca. What Falstaff's pistol might have looked like is less clear. The arquebus, however, did not appear in Europe before 1521, a century after the Battle of Shrewsbury.
The French started using the culverin in the 15th century this weapon was "later adapted for naval use by the English in the late 16th century", i.e. But the depicted shape does not match the image of the reconstructed pot-de-fer in the above Wikipedia article.) (So this cigarette card in the collections of the New York Public Library is perhaps not entirely anachronistic. The Wikipedia article on gunpowder artillery mentions that the "pot-de-fer" was used by both the English and the French during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) and thatĭuring the 1340s, cannon were still relatively rare, and were only used in small numbers by a few states. This is not because the technology was unknown in England though. The Wikipeda article doesn't mention any firearms. So what about the historical accuracy? The use of gunpowder and pistols during the Battle of Shrewsbury (July 1403) sounds anachronistic. Sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden It is much less plausible that it refers to something like the leaden dagger that Prince Hal mentions in Act II, scene 4 because lead is too malleable to be used for a dagger: He that rides at high speed and with his pistolīased on this textual evidence, it is perfectly plausible that "lead" in "keep the lead out of me" refers to bullets. The word " pistol" is also used elsewhere in the play, namely by Prince Hal in Act II, scene 4: Showing little concern for the lives of his men, but also providing evidence for the use of firearms.Īnd in Act V, scene 4, Falstaff also use the word gunpowder (in a metaphoric sense): In Act IV, scene 2, Falstaff had described the men he had rounded up for the army " food for powder", Unfortunately, what the Prince draws from Falstaff's "case" turns out to be a bottle of sack, which is more useful before than during a battle. Gets not my sword, but take my pistol if thou wilt. Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive thou The scene is set during the Battle of Shrewsbury and Falstaff's ragamuffins are the soldiers he is in charge of.Ī few lines below, Prince Hal enters the scene and says to Falstaff, I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered. God keep lead out of me, I need no more weight than my own bowels. I am as hot as molten lead, and as heavy too. Let us first look at the occurrences of words such as powder and pistol in the play as a whole.
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