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Mistress Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare. She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate. The character appears in four plays: ''Henry IV, Part 1'', ''Henry IV, Part 2'', ''Henry V'' and ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''. ==Character and role== In all the plays Quickly is characterised as a woman with strong links to the criminal underworld, but who is nevertheless preoccupied with her own respectable reputation. Her speech is filled with malapropisms, double entendres and "bawdy innuendo". Her name may be a pun on "quick lay", though "quick" also had the meaning of "alive", so it may imply "lively", which also commonly had a sexual connotation.〔J. Madison Davis, ''The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary'', Routledge, 2012, p.406.〕 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. According to James C. Bulman, she "unwittingly reaveals her sexual history" by her blithe malapropisms and "her character is both defined and undone by her absurdly original speech"〔James C. Bulman "Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2", ''The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays'', Cambridge University Press, 2002, p.170.〕 Though her age is not specified, the comment that she is "pistol proof" has been interpreted to mean that she is past childbearing age,〔Melchiori, G (ed), ''The Second Part of King Henry IV'', Cambridge University Press, 2007, p.126.〕 and she says she has known Falstaff for twenty nine years.〔Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mistress Quickly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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