The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

Kurt Schlueter

Cambridge University Press

2012

169 páginas

5h 38m

ISBN-13: 9781107004894

Kurt Schlueter approaches this early 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 high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. An illustrated stage history stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play, which nevertheless often fail to come to terms with its subversive impetus. Since the first recorded production at David Garrick's Drury Lane Theatre in the eighteenth century, it has tempted major directors and actors. Lucy Munro provides a new introductory section which brings the performance history up to date.