The Modern Language Review, April 1st, 2000
Henry IV, Part 2. Ed. by RENE WEIS. (The Oxford Shakespeare) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. viii + 287 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
When Rene Weis calls 2 Henry IV 'the greatest Falstaff play' (p. 78) one thinks of Silence's comparison of Falstaff and Goodman Puff of Barson, for though it is the longest (3322 Folio lines; 1 Henry IV, 3180; Merry Wives, 2729), few would claim that it is the best; Weis's own claim is not precisely this, but that Falstaff has a greater share in it than he has in 1 Henry IV, which is usually taken to be one of the shortcomings of the sequel play. Yet it is a work ...
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