The story of Falstaff and his difficulties with Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. One of the most amusing of all Shakespeare's comedies, this picture necessarily has to confine itself to Falstaff's doings principally. A thousand feet of film is scarcely capable of containing more. In the film Falstaff is crowned with an ass' head, when the text calls for a buck's head. This can be easily remedied, but as it is presented it makes an incongruity which is like a discord in music. It jars upon the nerves of the one who is familiar with Shakespeare. Aside from this one defect, the picture is a relatively satisfactory presentation of Falstaff's doings, and markedly appreciated by the audience. - The Moving Picture World, December 10, 1910
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