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Inspired by 'Henry IV, Part II', the sculpture is the seventh in a series of sculptures designed for the Great Garden at New Place, the site of Shakespeare's former home in Stratford-upon-Avon. It features features Falstaff as a disillusioned knight.

Shakespeare's New Place

Stratford-upon-Avon

Title

Henry IV, Part 2

Date

c. 2006

Medium

bronze

Accession number

STRST : SBT 2007-18/2

Acquisition method

gift from the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2006

Work type

Statue

Signature/marks description

Inscription description

rear: SIR JOHN FALSTAFF / I would ’twere bed-time, Hal, and all well / PRINCE Harry Why, thou owest God a death / Exit / SIR JOHN FALSTAFF ’Tis not due yet, / I would be loath to pay him before his / day. What need I be so forward with him / that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no / matter, honor pricks me on. Yea, but / how if honor prick me off when I come / on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? / No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the / grief of a wound? No Honor hath no / skill in surgery then? No. What is / honor? A word. What is in that word / honor? What is that honor? Air. A / trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died / a’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No / Doth he hear it? No. ’Tis insensible / then? Yea, to the dead. But will’t not live / with the living? No. Why? Detraction / will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it / honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends / my catechism. / Exit/ 1 Henry IV Act 5 scene 1

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