Robert Shallow is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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14 Facts About Robert Shallow
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Robert Shallow is a wealthy landowner and Justice of the Peace in Gloucestershire, who at the time of The Merry Wives of Windsor is said to be over 80.
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Robert Shallow has been tasked to find suitable recruits in his locality.
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Robert Shallow tells his colleague Justice Silence that he looks forward to meeting Falstaff, who he hasn't seen for many years.
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Robert Shallow then reminisces about his youthful wild antics as a law student at Clement's Inn when Falstaff was a boy.
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When Falstaff arrives, Robert Shallow is delighted by his witticisms, and invites him to stay longer.
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Robert Shallow is forced out of the king's presence along with the lowlife characters.
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Robert Shallow appears at the beginning of the play to complain that Falstaff has been poaching deer from his land, has broken into a lodge and has assaulted his servants.
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Robert Shallow is advised to take his mind off the matter by promoting the marriage of Slender to Anne Page, daughter of the well-off Thomas Page, who approves the match.
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For most of the rest of the play, Robert Shallow simply encourages the oafish Slender's clumsy attempts to woo Anne.
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Daniel Kornstein says that in Henry IV, Part 2 Robert Shallow is set up as the antithesis of the firm and incorruptible Lord Chief Justice, who is never deceived by Falstaff: the "contrast between the Lord Chief Justice and Robert Shallow could not be greater".
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Robert Shallow lives up to his name and is a "stupid gullible liar".
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Theory that Shallow was a joke at Lucy's expense dates back to c 1688, when Archdeacon Richard Davies wrote that Shakespeare was "much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and Rabbits particularly from Sr.
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Leslie Hotson in his 1931 book Shakespeare versus Robert Shallow argues that Robert Shallow is a parody of William Gardiner, a corrupt Justice of the Peace who had a long-running feud with the owner of the Swan theatre, Francis Langley.
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