Sir John Oldcastle of Martyrs". Oldcastle was also a minor character in the early Elizabethan history play the "Famous Victories of Henry V" (c. 1586?), which is generally thought to have been one of Shakespeare's sources for his plays on Henry IV and Henry V. The genesis of "Sir John Oldcastle" is crucially linked to the fact that when Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays premiered on stage in 1597–98, the character Sir John Falstaff was called Sir John Oldcastle. This is indicated by abundant external and internal evidence. The change of names, from "Oldcastle" to "Falstaff," is mentioned in seventeenth-century works by Richard James
BBC Television Shakespeare Aufidius in front of a large crowd who urge Aufidius to kill him. However, in shooting the scene, Moshinsky changed it so that it takes place in front of a few silent senators, and there is no real fight as such. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "The Tragedy of Coriolanus" was presented by Ian Hogg who had played Coriolanus in a 1972 RSC production directed by Trevor Nunn. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by General Sir John Hackett. Cast For this production, director David Giles chose to go with a semi-stylised setting, which he referred to as