Bardolph (Shakespeare character) He is sentenced to punishment of death by hanging. In a focal point of "Henry V", King Henry, despite being friends with Bardolph in his youth, remorselessly agrees to his punishment and has him hanged. Bardolph appears in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" as one of Falstaff's associates along with Nym and Pistol again, though his role is minor. Abraham Slender accuses him and the others of getting him drunk and then robbing him after he passed out. They all deny it. Later, Bardolph is dismissed by Falstaff because of his inadequate thieving skills ("his filching was like an unskilful
Abraham (Hrotsvitha play) the shameless charms of sinful women." Hrostvit's project, therefore, was to write plays that redeem women from the moral depravity of Terence's work and to put forth an alternative narrative in which women are spiritually steadfast and courageous. In accordance with this mission, Hrosvit's heroines overcome obstacles in the preservation of their Christian virtue. That virtue usually takes the form of virginity – a central motif in "Abraham." "Abraham", along with Hrotsvit's other five plays, has been the object of much feminist criticism. Scholars have disagreed about whether the play empowers women or reinforces oppressive systems. In her book "Feminism