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Zadarski Falstaff iz 1575.

The english dramatist Anthony Munday, some four years older than Shakespeare, published his "Fedele and Fortunato". "Two Italian Gentlemen" in 1585, a few years before Shakespeare wrote his earliest plays. Thus Shakespeare could have derived motifs from the Munday drama in a lot of his texts, specially in "The Two Gentlemen from Verona", "Cymbeline" and in "Much Ado About Nothing" but he was particularly fascinated with the Munday character of Crackstone. Shakespearebased on this typical miles gloriosus his famous Falstaff who appeared first in "Henry IV", "Henry V" and than in the comedy "Merry Wives of Windsor" staged for Queen Elisabeth. The fact in that Munday´s Crackston, alias Falstaff, is a character that was completely imitated from the Italian play "Il Fedele" written by Luigi Pasqualigi for the carnival of Zadar in 1575 and published in Venice a year after. So the character of Falstaff for the first time appeared in Zadar with the name Frangipietra, than was transferred in Munday´s Crakston and finally became Shakespeareś Falstaff. The author concludes the paper maintaining that the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was right when he considered Falstaff to be a Mediterranean type.

Hrvatska književnost; engleska književnost; renesansa; drama i kazalište; Anthony Munday; Alvise Pasqualigo; Falstaff; William Shakespeare; Zadar

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