The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) / Edition 3

by William Shakespeare, William Carroll, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, H. R. Woudhuysen

Overview

Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what happens to those friendships when men fall in love.William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bold treatment of them. Special attention is given to the strong female figure of Julia and the controversial final scene.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903436950
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/18/2004
Series:	Arden Shakespeare Series
Edition description:	3RD
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	675,316
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. His publications include The Great Feast of Language in 'Love's Labour's Lost', The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy, and Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare. In addition, he has edited Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women for the New Mermaid series and Macbeth: Texts and Contexts for the Bedford Shakespeare.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

List of illustrations General Editors preface Preface Introduction - The Play - Cease to persuade - The Early Modern Discourse of Male Friendship - Titus and Gisippus and the Offer - The Rape and the Offer - Friendship Discourse After Two Gentlemen - The Prodigious Son - Who is Julia? Romance and the Boy Actor - Metamorphosis: Ovid and Lyly - Pox of your love letters - Who is Crab? - Verona - Milan - Mantua - Padua - Dramaturgy - The Afterlife - The Theatrical Tradition - The Critical Tradition - Text and Date THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Appendix: Casting chart Abbreviations and References Index