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Shakespeare A - Z*

Doll Tearsheet

She is none other than Falstaff's mistress in 2 Henry IV and Henry V.  Although she is a prostitute, Doll's affection for Falstaff is clearly something real.  Doll is a common name, conventionally given to prostitutes.   In 2.4, Doll joins Falstaff and his crew of ne'er-do-wells at the Boar's Head Tavern, and tells him, "I love thee better than I love e'er scurvy young  boy of them all." Later, in In 5.4, Doll and the Hostess are both arrested for their involvement in a murder.  This episode underlines how profligate Falstaff and his cohorts are, setting up Prince Hal's eventual rejection of Falstaff and the world which he represents. We learn from Pistol in Henry V that Doll eventually dies of a venereal disease.

*Taken from Shakespeare A-Z, by Charles Boyce, Bantam Double Day Dell Publishing, New York, New York, © 1990.

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