The Further Fortunes of Falstaff

Abstract

There are some figures in literature of whom the public can never have enough. The general welcomes Tamburlaine received made Marlowe pen his second part, and within four months of Robinson Crusoe’s life and strange surprising adventures his further adventures were on sale. Tamburlaine died, and Crusoe grew older; but William Brown was boy eternal, and Richmal Crompton, who related his strange surprising adventures in some thirty volumes, with rueful affection called him ‘my Frankenstein’s Monster’.