Bobadill and Falstaff : a comparative study

Abstract EN

This study is primarily intended as a comparison and contrast between two great characterts: the first is Jonson’s most living character, Bobadill, and the second is a Shakespearean giant, Sir John Falstaff, with whom almost everyone who knows Shakespeare is acquainted.

I shall try to show what each character does, when the light is turned upon him, and how each reacts when palced in difficult situations.

In this way, we can make a fair evaluation of their characters.