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Bardolph

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Bardolph
“coney-catching rascal”; follower of Falstaff. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor]
See : Clowns

Bardolph
for red nose, known as “knight of the burning lamp.” [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor]
See : Nose

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He also was a Phelps-Stokes Fund director, chairman of the NAACP's board and according to Richard Bardolph, a "perennial intermediary between Negroes and the White House.
For example, when, Pistol, in Henry V, announces that Bardolph has stolen "a pax" and must be hanged for it, we are readier now to hear an allusion to the stripping of the altars in this reference to a piece of liturgical furniture no longer in use in Tudor England.
As Falstaff's sidekicks Bardolph and Pistol, tenor Greg Fedderly and bass Dean Peterson provided requisite buffoonery, but Ukrainian baritone Vassily Gerello should be more menacing as the gullible Ford, and though the much-touted young Russian tenor Daniil Shtoda, singing Fenton, gained in confidence as the opera progressed, his attractive voice seemed small.
 
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