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Oldcastle

American  
[ohld-kas-uhl, -kah-suhl] / ˈoʊldˌkæs əl, -ˌkɑ səl /

noun

  1. Sir John (Lord Cobham), 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.


Oldcastle British  
/ ˈəʊldˌkɑːsəl /

noun

  1. Sir John, Baron Cobham. ?1378–1417, Lollard leader. In 1411 he led an English army in France but in 1413 he was condemned as a heretic and later hanged and burnt. He is thought to have been a model for Shakespeare's character Falstaff in Henry IV

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It is being presented by Bickford in a partnership with Oldcastle and the Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, based in Madison and currently without a performing space, where Mr. Pietrowski is the artistic director.

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2011

Perhaps the set functioned better at the Oldcastle Theater Company in Vermont, where this production first appeared in August.

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2011

Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin."

From Time Magazine Archive

The pair lived narrowly in a small house up at Pireford, between Hanbridge and Oldcastle.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Seen from the hills in the vicinity of Oldcastle in Meath, it is as fair a sight as can well be imagined, with its wood-crowned, indented shores.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

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