Characters of Shakespear's Plays Merry Wives of Windsor". The bulk of Hazlitt's commentary on the two history plays is devoted to Falstaff, whom he considers to be "perhaps the most substantial comic character ever invented". Falstaff had been of interest to Shakespearean commentators for years. Forty years earlier, a full-length book had appeared, "An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff" (1777), by Maurice Morgann, often taken as the beginning of that school of Shakespearean criticism which considers the characters of Shakespeare's plays as though they were real people. Hazlitt, who seems to have had little acquaintance with Morgann's work, is careful
Plays of Three Decades announcement that she and her son are still under arrest. "(For full synopsis see Shadow of Heroes.)" The play opened on October 7, 1958 at the Piccadilly Theatre in London and resulted in the release, just eleven days later, of Julia Rajk and her son. Plays of Three Decades Plays of Three Decades is a collection of three plays by the prolific playwright, screenwriter, and science writer Robert Ardrey. The three plays included are "Thunder Rock", Ardrey's international classic about hope and human progress; "Jeb", Ardrey's post-World War II civil rights play about a black soldier returning from the Pacific;