Henry IV, Berlin, 1780: Friedrich Ludwig Schröder as Falstaff.

This was one of Schröder's greatest roles on the German stage, which included Shylock, Hamlet, Macbeth and Lear. He also staged Henry IV in 1778. See Simon Williams, Shakespeare on the German Stage: 1586-1914, Volume I, Chapter 4: "Shakespeare introduced: Schroder's Hamlet and other adaptations," Cambridge U. Press, 2004. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.