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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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    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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  • village Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada, an unincorporated community Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards in the 15th century Sir John Oldcastle, a play...
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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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    of 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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    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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    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...
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    playwrights wrote a two-part play entitled Sir John Oldcastle, which presents a heroic dramatisation of Oldcastle's life and was published in 1600. In 1986...
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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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    such during their lifetimes; they were men of discretion, and unlike Sir John Oldcastle years later, rarely gave any hint of open rebellion. However, they...
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    Giles High Street. In 1414, St Giles Fields served as the centre of Sir John Oldcastle's abortive proto-Protestant Lollard uprising directed against the Catholic...
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    plans. It is also portrayed in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle (c.1600) and in William Kenrick's Falstaff's Wedding (1760). The Southampton...
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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...
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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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    the old and experienced Baron Thomas Camoys. The archers were commanded by Sir Thomas Erpingham, another elderly veteran. It is likely that the English...
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    Prince Hal, who was called Sir John Oldcastle. The descendants of the real Oldcastle complained, so the name was changed to Sir John Falstaff, under which...
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  • the Lollard John Oldcastle, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare as John Falstaff. He was finally executed after the murder of Sir Christopher Talbot...
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  • only 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...
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    was first related by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531. The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the...
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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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    "Sir John Old Castlle." Originally, Falstaff was called Sir John Oldcastle, but Shakespeare was pressured into changing the name. Although "Sir John Old...
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    high tower and was built between 1432 and 1446 by Sir John Fastolf, who (along with Sir John Oldcastle) was an inspiration for William Shakespeare's Falstaff...
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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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    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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    '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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    of violence in Herefordshire, where he was a friend of the Lollard Sir John Oldcastle, and for land disputes with retainers of the Earl of Arundel. The...
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    The Second Maiden's Tragedy Double Falsehood Thomas of Woodstock Sir John Oldcastle Thomas Lord Cromwell A Yorkshire Tragedy Fair Em Mucedorus The Merry...
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  • flirts with Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Sir John Falstaff (fict, but see Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Fastolfe) is a central character of Henry IV...
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    number of Lords, the most famous of whom was Sir John Oldcastle, the figure on which the character of Sir John Falstaff is based in the late 16th-century...
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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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