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| Tango01 | 06 Apr 2014 9:11 p.m. PST |
"Sir John Falstaff Reviews His Ragged Regiment (1859) by the English artist Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897). Falstaff in front of his infamous "shadows", non-existent or disabled soldiers for whom the commanding officer receives pay. Recruiting is here a business with the only purpose to make money. In a very modern way Falstaff refers to his men: "Now, now: they're good enough to die. Cannon fodder, cannon fodder—they'll fill a mass grave as well as better men would."
From here.
link "Shakespeare's model for Falstaff was Sir John Oldcastle; he became Lord Cobham by marrying the heiress, Joan with whom he lived at Cooling castle. He was in fact very different from Falstaff; though he was indeed a friend of young Prince Hal, and proved himself a brave and capable commander compaigning in Wales and France, he became a Lollard. These 14th century Evangelical Christians, were opposed to the corrupt practices of the Church, the supremacy of the Pope and making war. This brought him into conflict with statutory power, and he was imprisoned in the Tower. He escaped, spent four years at large, was recaptured in Wales in 1417 and finally hanged and burnt for heresy and conspiracy against his old friend, now King Henry V."
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