Doll Tearsheet

In Dominic Dromgoole's intelligent, faithful and entertaining new production, Sir John Falstaff, that "sweet creature of bombast", might have stopped for a pint of sack in Southwark en route for a rendezvous with Doll Tearsheet at the Boar's Head.

Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 2010

More coarse and less merry, but not less vivid, is that other scene wherein the shrill-tongued Doll Tearsheet and the peace-making Dame Quickly figure.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Nay, the very words, 'Come let me wipe thy face,' are addressed by Doll Tearsheet to Falstaff, when he was heated by his pursuit of Pistol: -- 'Alas, poor ape, how thou sweatest!

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 Various

How did he know Dogberry and Pistol, Bardolph and Doll Tearsheet?

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

How did he know Dogberry and Pistol, Bardolph and Doll Tearsheet?

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

But it must be remarked that it is only when his heroes come into question that he practises this restraint: he is content to tell us casually that Prince Henry was a sensualist; but he shows us Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet engaged at lips 'length.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

Through its feculent columns Muckle-mouthed Meg and Doll Tearsheet made assignations with forks-of-the-creeks fools, while blear-eyed bummers and rotten-livered rounders requested respectable women to meet them at unfrequented places and wear camp-meeting lingerie.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

IV. _ in reference to Doll Tearsheet and Falstaff, is reported in due time in a postscript to a letter written by Elizabeth Vernon, now Lady

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet, in the _Second Part of Henry IV. _, in which play there are also allusions to the characters of the _Iliad_, which link its composition with the same period as _Troilus and Cressida_; and an allusion to _The Nine Worthies_ that apparently link it in time with the final revision of _Love's Labour's Lost_ late in 1598.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

But it must be remarked that it is only when his heroes come into question that he practises this restraint: he is content to tell us casually that Prince Henry was a sensualist; but he shows us Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet engaged at lips 'length.

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893