“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”
“But Hamlet is death's ambassador while Falstaff is the embassy of life.”
― Harold Bloom, Falstaff: Give Me Life
Falstaff indeed is life itself. This is the 1964 Caedmon recording with Harry Andrews, Richard Johnson,
Anthony Quayle, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Max Adrian, Felix Aylmer, Pamela Brown, Miles
Malleson, and Joyce Redman. Kindly seed.
William Shakespeare - 16 - Henry IV, Parts 1-2, Leo McKern bbc 1973
William Shakespeare - 31 - Henry IV Pt 1-bbc 1999
William Shakespeare - 32 - Henry IV Pt 2 - bbc 1999
William Shakespeare – 79 – Henry IV, Parts I and II – Marlowe Dramatic Society 1960