Two Gentlemen of Verona
About this book
"Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play, which nevertheless often fail to come to terms with its subversive impetus. Since the first known production at David Garrick's Drury Lane Theatre, it has tempted major directors and actors, including John Philip Kemble, William Charles Macready and Charles Kean, who established a tradition of understanding which cast its shadow even on such modern productions as Denis Carey's famous staging for the Bristol Old Vic and Robin Phillips's for the Royal Shakespeare Company. This updated edition includes a new introductory section by Lucy Munro on recent stage and critical interpretations, bringing the performance history completely up to date"--
Subjects
- 1564-1616
- 822.33
- adaptations
- british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- children's plays
- comedies
- comedy
- concordances
- continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
- criticism and interpretation
- drama
- drama, collections
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- drama ingles
- english
- english drama
- english literature
- english young adult drama
- exiles
- exiles -- drama
- exiles--drama
- fiction
- fiction, general
- herbert, george, 1593-1633
- herrick, robert, 1591-1674
- juvenile fiction
- pictorial works
- plays
- pr2838.a2 c37 2004
- pr2838.a2 r63 2000
- problems, exercises
- promptbooks
- rejection (psychology)
- shakespeare
- shakespeare, william , 1564-1616
- shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, concordances
- shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, two gentlemen of verona
- stage history
- teatro ingles (periodo elizabetano)
- texts
- translations into japanese
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- triangles (interpersonal relations) -- drama
- triangles (interpersonal relations)--drama
- triangles (interpersonal relations)--italy--verona--drama
- two gentlemen of verona
- two gentlemen of verona (shakespeare, william)
- verona (italy) -- drama
- william