The Two gentlemen of Verona. / William Shakespeare ; edited by Clifford Leech.
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TextUnited Kingdom : T. Nelson & Sons, [1997];copyright 1997Description: lxxv,122 pages 20 cmContent type: - text
- volume
- 0-17-443581-9
- PR 2838.A2 .Sh15 1997
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At the head of title : The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Lucetta is the conventional female companion of the heroine,Thurio is the rich but unwelcome rival wooer(the pantaloon) , Antonio and the Duke are typically strong-willed fathers opposing the romantic marriages of their children,Speed and Lance are at least supposed to be clever servants who deliver messages and arrange rendezvous,and the four young lovers are the romantic protagonists.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is also Shakespeare apprenticeship to the romantic fiction of Italy and other southern European countries,whence he later derived so many plots of threatened love.He locates his story in Italy and gives some of his characters Italian names.He uses the conventional plot devices of romatic fiction: inconstancy in love and in friendship ,the disguise of the heroine as a page,the overhearing of false vows,banishment ,elopement,capture by outlaws,and son on.Virtually all characters have a recognizable ancestry,not only in continental fiction but in neoclassical drama as well
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