Two gentlemen of Verona : critical essays / edited by June Schlueter.
Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship de...
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1996.
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| Series: | Garland reference library of the humanities ;
v. 1645. Garland reference library of the humanities. Shakespeare criticism ; v. 15. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Criticism. Excerpt from his edition of The plays of William Shakespeare (1765) / Samuel Johnson
- Excerpt from Characters of Shakespear's plays (1817) / William Hazlitt
- Excerpt from A study of Shakespeare (1880) / Algernon Charles Swinburne
- "The female page" from Disguise plots in Elizabethan drama (1915) / Victor Oscar Freeburg
- The ending of The two gentlemen of Verona (1933) / S. Asa Small
- Sir Thomas Elyot and the integrity of The two gentlemen of Verona (1950) / Ralph M. Sargent
- Proteus, wry-transformed traveller (1954) / Thomas A. Perry
- Excerpt from Shakespeare's comedies (1960) / Bertrand Evans
- Two clowns in a comedy (to say nothing of the dog) : Speed, Launce (and Crab) in The two gentlemen of Verona (1963) / Harold F. Brooks
- Laughing with the audience : The two gentlemen of Verona and the popular tradition of comedy (1969) / Robert Weimann
- "Were man but constant, he were perfect" : constancy and consistency in The two gentlemen of Verona (1972) / Inga-Stina Ewbank
- The two gentlemen of Verona and the courtesy book tradition (1983) / Camille Wells Slights
- Love letters in The two gentlemen of Verona (1986) / Frederick Kiefer
- "Metamorphising" Proteus : reversal strategies in The two gentlemen of Verona (1996) / Charles A. Hallett
- Shakespeare's actors as collaborators : Will Kempe and The two gentlemen of Verona (1996) / Kathleen Campbell
- "I am but a foole, looke you" : Launce and the social functions of humor (1996) / John Timpane
- "To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue" : silence and satire in The two gentlemen of Verona (1994) / Michael D. Friedman
- Feminine "depth" on the nineteenth-century stage (1996) / Patty S. Derrick
- pt. 2. Theatre reviews. European magazine : 1821, Covent Garden, London, directed by Frederick Reynolds
- 1895, Daly's Theatre, London, directed by Augustin Daly / Bernard Shaw
- 1904, Court Theatre, London, directed by Harvey Granville Barker / J.C. Trewin
- 1910, His Majesty's Theatre, London, directed by William Poel / Robert Speaight
- 1956, The Old Vic, London, directed by Michael Langham / Muriel St. Clare Byrne
- 1970, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Robin Phillips / Robert Speaight
- 1975, Stratford, Ontario, directed by Robin Phillips and David Toguri / Berners W. Jackson
- 1983, BBC TV/Time Life Productions, directed by Don Taylor / Harry Keyishian, Patty S. Derrick
- 1984, The Young Company, Stratford, Ontario, directed by Leon Rubin / James P. Lusardi
- 1990, The Acting Company, directed by Charles Newell / Jean Peterson
- 1991, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by David Thacker / Paul Nelsen, Thomas Clayton.