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- Title
The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Courtesy Book Tradition.
- Authors
Slights, Camille Wells
- Abstract
Discusses how English playwright William Shakespeare combined mockery of artificial conventions with lyric evocation of romantic love in his comedy 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona.' Final scene's presentation of an interpretative crux; Shakespeare's contradiction of the premises of his own romantic comedy; Placement of the play in the Renaissance tradition that exalts friendship over love.
- Subjects
SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragicomedies; ENGLISH drama (Tragicomedy); LOVE in literature; ELIZABETHAN (Literary period); 17TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 1983, Vol 16, p13
- ISSN
0582-9399
- Publication type
Literary Criticism