Michael Billington recalls a feast of Falstaffs including Joss Ackland, David Warner and Orson Welles. Tell us your favourite versions of these state-of-the-nation playsKenneth Tynan called these plays "the twin summits of Shakespeare's genius" and I see no reason to disagree. They embrace court and tavern, town and country, exuberant life and omnipresent death and are the first, and finest, state-of-the-na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM on April 14, 2014