The Oxford Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By:

William Shakespeare

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Hardback

Series:

The Oxford Shakespeare

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This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona offers a complete consideration of all aspects of the text. It interprets the play less as a contribution to a Renaissance literary debate between love and friendship (the traditional academic view) than as a dramatization of competing kinds of love - a theatrical counterpart to Shakespeare's Sonnets. It analyzes the lyrical language with which these kinds of love are expressed, and explores the tension between lyricism and the violence of some of the play's events, notably the concluding attempted rape scene. It also provides further evidence that The Two Gentlemen is Shakespeare's earliest surviving play, and proposes a new actor for whom the principal comic role of Lance may have been designed. This is the only edition to offer a setting of the song 'Who is Silvia?', prepared by Guy Woolfenden from an Elizabethan source, and is therefore the only edition on the market to provide a complete text for performance.

Author Biography:

Roger Warren is the editor of the Oxford Shakespeare editions of Cymbeline, Pericles, Henry VI, Part 2, and (with Stanley Wells) Twelfth Night. He works extensively in the professional theatre.

Release date NZ

July 10th, 2008

Author

William Shakespeare

Audiences

Further/Higher Education
General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Edited by Roger Warren

Illustrations

9 black-and-white halftones

Pages

202

Series

The Oxford Shakespeare

Dimensions

143x222x22

ISBN-13

9780198123675

Product ID

2572390

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