Falstaff and Equity: An Interpretation by Charles E. Phelps - 2002-12-01

2002. ISBN-13: 9781584772309; ISBN-10: 1584772301. Phelps, Charles E. Falstaff and Equity: An Interpretation. Originally published: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. xvi, 201 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772309; ISBN-10: 1584772301. Smyth-sewn cloth bound hardcover with gilt stamped spine and cover. New. $18.95 * "Judge Phelps of Baltimore has done a very pretty piece of legal and literary work in this volume. The text is Falstaff's remark in the Gadshill scene: `An the Prince and the Poins be not two arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring." All the commentators have passed this over, assuming, it seems, that the meaning is only `there's no such thing as justice in the world.' Certainly the words will bear that meaning. But it is a flat remark for Falstaff to make, if that is all. Is it not really pointed by some special allusion? Putting that question to himself as a good Shakespeare reader, Judge Phelps, as a good lawyer, answers it by looking to… Read More

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