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Fluellen

Fluellen is a fictional character in the play Henry V by William Shakespeare. Fluellen is a Welsh Captain, a leader of a contingent of troops in the small army of King Henry V of England while on campaign in France during the Hundred Years' War. He is a comic figure, whose characterisation draws on stereotypes of the Welsh at that time, but he is also portrayed as a loyal, brave and dedicated soldier.

Fluellen (surname)

Fluellen is a name of Welsh origin originally derived from Llywelyn. It may refer to:

  • David Fluellen (born 1992), American football running back
  • Andre Fluellen (born 1985), American football defensive tackle
  • Fluellen, fictional character in the play Henry V by William Shakespeare

Category:Surnames of Welsh origin Category:Welsh-language surnames

Usage examples of "fluellen".

Whether Sir Hugh inspired Fluellen or vice versa depends on which play was written first, and this we do not know.

What Fluellen is saying is that the defending forces in Harfleur were digging mines of their own four yards beneath the English mines.

When Fluellen urges him to join in a discussion of some abstruse points of military science, Macmorris rightly refuses, insisting that this is not the time.

Pistol, who has, of course, imposed on the credulous Fluellen with his vaunting words rather than with any actual deeds.

Thereupon Pistol insults Fluellen with an obscene gesture and leaves in a fury.

King then enters, inquires as to the recent action, and is told by Fluellen that the only Englishman lost is the one who robbed the church.

King remains on one side of the stage and can overhear, without being observed, when Gower and Fluellen enter.

As soon as Gower opens his mouth, Fluellen shushes him for making too much noise on the battlefield, lecturing him, as is his wont, on the ancient usages.

Furthermore, Fluellen stresses the Welsh as Monmouth men, for it was in Monmouth that Henry was born.

Henry answers with gentle and grave courtesy, but can it be that Shakespeare is hinting, through Fluellen, that even Henry V might not always be an honest or good man and that in such a case one ought to be ashamed even of the hero-king?

Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester, Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.

France again and Fluellen has yet to pay back Pistol for his insulting remark about the leeks on the night before Agincourt.

Gower, indignantly, that on the previous day Pistol had approached Fluellen with bread and salt, suggesting that Fluellen eat the leek he was wearing.

When Pistol appears, Fluellen, with mock politeness, greets him as a scurvy, lousy knave.

Colonel Fluellen Wythan at one ear, and Captain Agincourt Gower at the other.