Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director

by Orson Welles and Bridget Gellert Lyons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813513391
• ISBN13: 9780813513393
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"