Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader. From 1409 to 1413, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Cobham, in the right...
14 KB (1,678 words) - 04:43, 19 March 2024
Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan play about John Oldcastle, a controversial 14th-/15th-century rebel and Lollard who was seen by some of Shakespeare's...
10 KB (1,382 words) - 03:56, 14 May 2024
laugh this sport o'er by a country fire; Sir John and all". Shakespeare originally named Falstaff "John Oldcastle", a real historical personage who died in...
39 KB (5,107 words) - 23:51, 10 June 2024
The Oldcastle Revolt was a Lollard uprising directed against the Catholic Church and the English king, Henry V. The revolt was led by John Oldcastle, taking...
11 KB (1,174 words) - 21:22, 29 January 2024
Oldcastle may refer to: Oldcastle, Bridgend, Wales, a ward Oldcastle, Cheshire, England, a parish Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, a town Oldcastle, Monmouthshire...
597 bytes (92 words) - 19:29, 20 December 2023
Lollardy (section Oldcastle Revolt)
weakening. With regard to the Eucharist, Lollards such as John Wycliffe, William Thorpe, and John Oldcastle, taught a view of the real presence of Christ in Holy...
34 KB (3,928 words) - 17:48, 4 June 2024
Gruffudd Vychan (section Capture of Sir John Oldcastle)
against the English, and captured the Lollard John Oldcastle, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare as John Falstaff. He was finally executed after the...
10 KB (1,454 words) - 19:11, 20 April 2023
Henry IV, Part 1 (section Oldcastle controversy)
character now known as "Falstaff" was originally named "Oldcastle" and was based on John Oldcastle, a famous proto-Protestant martyr with powerful living...
30 KB (3,422 words) - 05:01, 29 May 2024
early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards. Shakespeare's Falstaff was originally named "Oldcastle", following his main source...
57 KB (6,456 words) - 01:41, 11 June 2024
King John is not included in the Henriad because it is said to have a style that is of a different order than the other history plays. King John has great...
21 KB (2,836 words) - 20:18, 2 June 2024
Shakespeare's Henry V, and in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle. Although Cambridge's title was forfeited, he was not attainted, and...
19 KB (2,156 words) - 03:30, 2 April 2024
Berwick at his approach; and on his return to London he brought Sir John Oldcastle to trial and was present at his execution. He appears to have governed...
33 KB (3,650 words) - 23:32, 8 June 2024
Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham (category John Falstaff)
Shakespeare's Falstaff, who was originally given the name "Oldcastle". Sir John Oldcastle shared the same title, Lord Cobham, as Henry Brooke. Although...
8 KB (873 words) - 17:44, 26 May 2024
the French would pay the 1.6 million crowns outstanding from the ransom of John II (who had been captured at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356), and concede...
69 KB (8,788 words) - 22:49, 4 June 2024
the first part of Sir John Oldcastle was published, in 1600 and 1619. None of the other plays has survived. Sir John Oldcastle was commissioned as a counterblast...
8 KB (830 words) - 19:21, 1 December 2022
anti-Catholic rebel Sir John Oldcastle, for "Oldcastle died martyr, and this is not the man". Falstaff had originally been named Oldcastle, following Shakespeare's...
18 KB (1,961 words) - 09:59, 14 May 2024
by Wat Tyler), even though the phenomenon of "Lollard knights" (like John Oldcastle) had become almost a national sensation all on its own. In essence,...
95 KB (10,056 words) - 14:01, 7 June 2024
Christopher Marlowe Antonio's Revenge by John Marston The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford Troilus and Cressida was listed...
12 KB (1,004 words) - 17:38, 28 May 2024
well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here. A modern reconstruction of the Globe...
26 KB (2,859 words) - 18:46, 10 March 2024
Mucedorus The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More ✻ The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas of...
3 KB (292 words) - 18:55, 22 May 2024
168 (Umich/eebo). P. Corbin and D. Sedge (eds), The Oldcastle Controversy: "Sir John Oldcastle, Part 1" and "The Famous Victories of Henry V", The Revels...
77 KB (9,817 words) - 04:33, 23 April 2024
Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Locrine; The London Prodigal; The Puritan; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas Lord Cromwell; and A Yorkshire Tragedy. (See: Shakespeare Apocrypha...
14 KB (1,864 words) - 02:39, 5 June 2024
'consubstantiation' as Wyclif and prominent lollards such as William Thorpe and Sir John Oldcastle asserted? "Consubstantiation". NewAdvent.org. Murphy, Russell E. (2007)...
13 KB (1,675 words) - 18:15, 9 April 2024
weapons, especially Welsh-hooks and forest-bills" ("The History of Sir John Oldcastle", Folio 3, 1664, 60). Falstaff: "My own knee? ... and swore the devil...
2 KB (185 words) - 11:52, 22 May 2024
English kings of the previous four centuries and include the standalones King John, Edward III and Henry VIII as well as a continuous sequence of eight plays...
67 KB (6,894 words) - 20:05, 31 May 2024
Oldcastle Materials Inc. is a supplier of asphalt, concrete, and other building materials, and also offers construction and paving services. The Atlanta-based...
30 KB (2,282 words) - 12:00, 18 April 2024
Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. The Cambridge conspiracy in The History of Sir John Oldcastle...
10 KB (906 words) - 02:00, 2 June 2024
Metamorphosis Sir John Oldcastle (published) The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (published) The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll Henry Chettle & John Day – The Blind...
12 KB (1,271 words) - 00:58, 16 July 2023
led by Richard Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Codnor, Sir John Greyndour, Dafydd Gam, and Sir John Oldcastle of Herefordshire, pursued the Welsh into the forest...
9 KB (1,165 words) - 06:47, 7 April 2024
Kentish line of the Cobhams terminated in an heiress, and she married Sir John Oldcastle, who was summoned to Parliament in right of his wife, as Baron Cobham...
4 KB (483 words) - 22:44, 8 June 2024