Sir John Falstaff , one of the companions of vice of the king d' Angleterre Henri V, during his youth. Shakespeare made of him the type of the large ruined, stunned lord by the defects and drunkenness, and still preserving in its air and its manners some traces with half unobtrusive of its old size. Falstaff plays a big role in the drama Henri V; he is the hero of the Joyeuses Gossips of Windsor .
It is believed that the original of this character is certain a John Fastolf which was used with some distinction in the campaigns as France, attended with the Bataille of Azincourt and the Siège of Orleans, but which shamefully escaped with the Bataille of Patay, and in 1469 died.
Falstaff with the cinema
Orson Welles devoted a film to this apparently secondary character, by remelting several of parts of the English playwright. Supreme honor, it is Welles itself which incarnates John Falstaff.
Falstaff in music
The character inspired two major operas, the first, ignored, of the feather of Antonio Salieri and the second of Giuseppe Verdi ( Falstaff ) as well as a symphonic part of Edward Elgar made up in 1913.Beethoven wrote a series of variations for piano on a duet of Falstaff de Salieri, “the stessa, the stessissima”.
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