Two gentlemen of Verona : critical essays

Author(s)

• Schlueter, June

Bibliographic Information

Two gentlemen of Verona : critical essays

edited by June Schlueter

（Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1645 . Shakespeare criticism ; v. 15）

Garland Pub., 1996

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Table of Contents

• I: Criticism
• Excerpt from His Edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
• Excerpt from Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817)
• Excerpt from A Study of Shakespeare (1880)
• "The Female Page" from Disguise Plots in Elizabethan Drama (1915)
• The Ending of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1933)
• Sir Thomas Elyot and the Integrity of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1950)
• Proteus, Wry-Transformed Traveller (1954)
• Excerpt from Shakespeare's Comedies (1960)
• Two Clowns in a Comedy (to say nothing of the Dog): Speed, Launce (and Crab) in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1963)
• Laughing with the Audience: The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Popular Tradition of Comedy (1969)
• "Were man but constant, he were perfect": Constancy and Consistency in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1972)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Courtesy Book Tradition (1983)
• Love Letters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1986)
• "Metamorphising" Proteus: Reversal Strategies in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1996)
• Shakespeare's Actors as Collaborators: Will Kempe and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1996)
• "I am but a foole, looke you": Launce and the Social Functions of Humor (1996)
• "To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue": Silence and Satire in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1994)
• Feminine "Depth" on the Nineteenth-Century Stage (1996)
• II: Theatre Reviews
• European Magazine: 1821, Covent Garden, London
• 1895, Daly's Theatre, London
• 1904, Court Theatre, London
• 1910, His Majesty's Theatre, London
• 1956, The Old Vic, London
• 1970, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
• 1975, Stratford, Ontario
• 1983, BBC TV/Time Life Productions
• 1984, The Young Company, Stratford, Ontario
• 1990, The Acting Company
• 1991, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Details

• NCID: BA27114037
• ISBN:
  • 081531020X
• LCCN: 95045741
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 288 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR2838
  • DC20 : 822.3/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Two gentlemen of Verona
  • LCSH : Comedy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0013663X