How does Shakespeare make compelling Drama from the relationship between Falstaff and Hal?
How does Shakespeare make compelling
Drama from the relationship between Falstaff and Hal?
Shakespeare makes compelling drama between Falstaff and Hal in many ways and in different scenes. As the personalities and characteristics of these two characters are very different, for example the comical jester amongst other things that is Falstaff clashes with the classical Prince Hal who stands for what he believes in. This makes it easier to create the drama that Shakespeare has made between the both of them.
In Act1 Scene2, most of this scene has only direct conversation between Falstaff and Hal. Falstaff enters with quite a casual attitude, by saying this I mean that I think his stance would be quite a relaxed one and that he would look jolly and be using big hand gestures to show the audience he likes to make a scene. He is always up to some sort of mischief, so he tells Hal that they should go out and rob some people at night "you come near me now Hal, for we that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars". This creates some drama because the audience will see the reaction that Hal gives to Falstaff when he suggests things like this. On the stage, Falstaff would probably be quite close to Hal and act quite jolly and maybe tipsy as this is the sort of person he is, judging from Hal's first description of him "Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon". This tells the audience how lazy Falstaff is and in this little description of Falstaff, Hal mocks Falstaff quite a bit about his ways of living. This can cause some comedy for the audience and I would imagine that Falstaff's pace of his speech and movement would be quite uneven for this scene, this is because at some points in his speech he is fairly calm and then at some other points he gets quite angry and irritated. E.g. At one point in the scene he will be calm "Now Hal, what time of day is it lad?" then at another he will have got quite angry or irritated by something "How now, how now mad wag? What, in thy quips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I do with a buff jerkin?" This shows his quick mood changes. The mood of this scene isn't very serious or formal as you can tell by Shakespeare's use of prose so this is why Falstaff acts like this in this scene. This applies to most of the scene apart from the end when Hal talks using verse and this implicates that he is using a more formal and royal way of talking and he is addressing people as his own, but he is talking to himself and the audience.
Drama from the relationship between Falstaff and Hal?
Shakespeare makes compelling drama between Falstaff and Hal in many ways and in different scenes. As the personalities and characteristics of these two characters are very different, for example the comical jester amongst other things that is Falstaff clashes with the classical Prince Hal who stands for what he believes in. This makes it easier to create the drama that Shakespeare has made between the both of them.
In Act1 Scene2, most of this scene has only direct conversation between Falstaff and Hal. Falstaff enters with quite a casual attitude, by saying this I mean that I think his stance would be quite a relaxed one and that he would look jolly and be using big hand gestures to show the audience he likes to make a scene. He is always up to some sort of mischief, so he tells Hal that they should go out and rob some people at night "you come near me now Hal, for we that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars". This creates some drama because the audience will see the reaction that Hal gives to Falstaff when he suggests things like this. On the stage, Falstaff would probably be quite close to Hal and act quite jolly and maybe tipsy as this is the sort of person he is, judging from Hal's first description of him "Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon". This tells the audience how lazy Falstaff is and in this little description of Falstaff, Hal mocks Falstaff quite a bit about his ways of living. This can cause some comedy for the audience and I would imagine that Falstaff's pace of his speech and movement would be quite uneven for this scene, this is because at some points in his speech he is fairly calm and then at some other points he gets quite angry and irritated. E.g. At one point in the scene he will be calm "Now Hal, what time of day is it lad?" then at another he will have got quite angry or irritated by something "How now, how now mad wag? What, in thy quips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I do with a buff jerkin?" This shows his quick mood changes. The mood of this scene isn't very serious or formal as you can tell by Shakespeare's use of prose so this is why Falstaff acts like this in this scene. This applies to most of the scene apart from the end when Hal talks using verse and this implicates that he is using a more formal and royal way of talking and he is addressing people as his own, but he is talking to himself and the audience.
