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The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

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Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona Information
1,868 words, approx. 6 pages
<i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</i> is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. The highlight of the play is considered by many to be the comic servingman Launce and his dog...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Margaret Maurer
12,343 words, approx. 41 pages
In the essay that follows, Maurer demonstrates that a rhetorical relationship exists between the inconsistencies within The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the play's ending.
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Critical Essay by Carol J. Carlisle and Patty S. Derrick
12,078 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Carlisle and Derrick provide an overview of the major theatrical productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, noting the importance of collaboration between all members of the theater—including directors, actors, and designers—and the author in order to produce a successful staging of the play.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Stage: Protean Problems and Protean Solutions
11,996 words, approx. 40 pages
Carol J. Carlisle, University of South Carolina
Patty S. Derrick, University of Pittsburgh In the theater, as in the study, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, possibly Shakespeare's earliest comedy, has traditionally been one of his least popular plays. By our present count, there have been just twenty-four productions of it on the London stage since Shakespeare's time, and seven of these were first seen elsewhere.1 At Stratford-upon-Avon there have been only ten since the annual Fes...
 


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