10 Facts About Mistress Quickly

Mistress Nell Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare.

Mistress Quickly's is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate.

Mistress Quickly's character is most fully developed in Henry IV, Part 2 in which her contradictory aspirations to gentility and barely concealed vulgarity are brought out in her language.

In Henry IV, Part 1, Mistress Quickly is described as the proprietor of the Boar's Head Tavern in the London neighbourhood of Eastcheap.

Mistress Quickly's is married, as Prince Hal asks after her husband, referring to him as "an honest man"; he does not appear in the play.

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Mistress Quickly's participates in the mock-court scene in which Falstaff pretends to be the king.

Mistress Quickly has a friendship of long standing with Doll Tearsheet, a prostitute who frequents the tavern, and protects her against aggressive men she calls "swaggerers".

Mistress Quickly's is with Falstaff at his deathbed, and describes his death to his friends.

Mistress Quickly appears along with Falstaff's other cronies in the play Falstaff's Wedding, a comedy by William Kenrick, which is set in the period between the end of Henry IV, Part 2 and the beginning of Henry V Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, having bribed their way out of prison, appear in the first act explaining to Falstaff how they were arrested.

Mistress Quickly intends to marry Shallow, and Doll to marry Slender.