SOURCE: "Coming Out in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona" in ELH, Vol. 60, No. 4, Winter, 1993, pp. 857-77.
In the following essay, Simmons considers ways that The Two Gentlemen of Verona exploits Elizabethan theatrical conventions of "The Young Man Leaving Home" in search of wealth, fame, an education, a wife, or some combination of these things—a quest that generally results in the achievement of self-knowledge as well
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