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Two gentlemen of Verona

by: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Publication date: 1924

Topics: Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Exiles, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama, Exiles -- Drama, Verona (Italy) -- Drama

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc.]

Collection: internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Contains facsimile reproduction of "the t.p. of Bartholomew Yonge's translation (1598) of Montemayor's Diana."

"Suggestions for collateral reading": p. [98]

Close friends Valentine and Proteus become rivals for the hand of Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to the foolish coward Thurio. Proteus has Valentine banished, but Silvia escapes to the forest to join him. Proteus follows with Julia, who dotes on him. After a confrontation, the Duke eventually allows Valentine and Silvia to wed, and Proteus marries Julia

4 p. l., 105 p. 18 cm