Such A King Harry

About the Book

This study of Shakespeare’s Falstaff versus Shakespeare Criticism takes a view of Falstaff that is critically unorthodox but which is supported by the text. This reading of the Falstaff plays sees the playwright basing his fiction on natural law, but bending natural law to present a world of personified natural phenomena. This reading is logically consistent, and conforms to all fictional requirements for necessity and probability, thus eliminating the supposed errors that criticism, which sees the plays as strictly realistic vehicles, appears to find in these plays.

About the Author

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Braxton came to Washington, D.C. to work with the Federal government, after which she earned a doctorate at The Catholic University of America. She has taught at Howard University, and has published articles on Shakespeare.