num_pages: 168
description: Professor Schlueter approaches this early Shakespearean comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show the pitfalls of high-flown human ideals. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play, which has tempted many nineteenth- and twentieth-century directors and actors, who often fail, nevertheless, to come to terms with the plays subversive impetus.
language: English
title: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
titlecomplete: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, Drama, Comedy, Literature, Romance, Classics, 16th Century
ratings_count: 15291
places: Verona, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
publisher: Cambridge University Press