The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series
William Carroll (Editor) Third Series The Arden Shakespeare is celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary.This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full...
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William Carroll (Editor) Third Series The Arden Shakespeare is celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary.This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperback ISBN 9781903436950
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781903436950 (1903436958)
Publish date: March 18th 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Fiction
Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is probably one of Shakespeare's earliest plays. It's also one of those Shakespeare plays that people like to get their hate on for purely anachronistic reasons. In it, Shakespeare once again fails to parrot the morality of an uncritical middle class North American and ...
While The Two Gentlemen of Verona is likely the Bard at his consummate worst, it is also one of his early plays, and is not without enjoyment in its own right. Herein is the early development of some of his major themes in comedy: disguise, homosocial relations, friendship, betrayal, misguided love....
Woo boy. That ending is pretty repulsive.
Though considered a comedy, there wasn’t much to laugh about. There’s some humorous banter between the servants and some decent punning along the way. Lies, cross-dressing and love all seem to be surefire ingredients for some laughs, but it all seems rather heavy-handed as Proteus systematically b...
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