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Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director

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Among the films inspired by Orson Welles's lifelong involvement with Shakespeare, the greatest is Chimes at Midnight (1966). It is a masterly conflation of the Shakespearean history plays that feature Falstaff, the great comic figure played by Welles himself in the film. For Welles, the character was also potentially tragic: the doomed friendship between Falstaff and Prince Hal becomes an image of the end of an age. To this epic subject Welles brings the innovative film techniques that made him famous in Citizen Kane, ...

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Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director 1989, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813513393

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Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director 1989, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813513386

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