Doll Tearsheet

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Doll Tearsheet is a bawdy prostitute and companion of Falstaff in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, known for her sharp tongue and comic exchanges in the Boar’s Head Tavern.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Shakespearean character
comic character
fictional character
prostitute
appearsIn Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
appearsInGenre history play
appearsInLanguage English
appearsInSeries Henriad
associatedTheme carnivalesque humor
urban life
vice
associatedWith Boar’s Head Tavern
Sir John Falstaff
characterType low-life character
countryOfOrigin England
creator William Shakespeare
fictionalUniverse Shakespearean histories
firstAppearance Henry IV, Part 2
surface form: Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2
frequents The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap
surface form: Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap
gender female
genre comedy
hasNameType nickname
hasRelationshipWith Sir John Falstaff
hasTrait coarse
loyalty to Falstaff
quarrelsome
quick-witted
interactsWith Mistress Quickly
Pistol
Prince Hal
knownFor bawdy language
sharp tongue
witty insults
languageOfExpression Early Modern English
literaryPeriod English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era
literaryTradition English Renaissance drama
medium stage drama
nationality English
occupation prostitute
roleInWork comic relief
setting Eastcheap, London
socialClass lower class
speechStyle colloquial
comic
insulting
tone bawdy
workAuthor William Shakespeare

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Mistress Quickly relationshipWith Doll Tearsheet
Henry IV, Part 2 principalCharacter Doll Tearsheet
Plump Jack hasCharacter Doll Tearsheet
Falstaff’s company hasMember Doll Tearsheet