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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Oldcastle may refer to: Oldcastle, Bridgend, Wales, a ward Oldcastle, Cheshire, England, a parish Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, a town Oldcastle, Monmouthshire...
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    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...
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  • against the English, and captured the Lollard John Oldcastle, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare as John Falstaff. He was finally executed after the...
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    character now known as "Falstaff" was originally named "Oldcastle" and was based on John Oldcastle, a famous proto-Protestant martyr with powerful living...
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    early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards. Shakespeare's Falstaff was originally named "Oldcastle", following his main source...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Locrine; The London Prodigal; The Puritan; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas Lord Cromwell; and A Yorkshire Tragedy. (See: Shakespeare Apocrypha...
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    'consubstantiation' as Wyclif and prominent lollards such as William Thorpe and Sir John Oldcastle asserted? "Consubstantiation". NewAdvent.org. Murphy, Russell E. (2007)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Oldcastle Materials Inc. is a supplier of asphalt, concrete, and other building materials, and also offers construction and paving services. The Atlanta-based...
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  • Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. The Cambridge conspiracy in The History of Sir John Oldcastle...
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  • Metamorphosis Sir John Oldcastle (published) The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (published) The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll Henry Chettle & John Day – The Blind...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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