The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Reading across plays
Sheldrake on Shakespeare
English - September 21, 2014 12:08 - 16.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBooks Arts sheldrake shakespeare english literature literary criticism drama theatre plays author Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is not a play many people have read. Though were they to read it, they might think they have, because it reads like an anthology of Shakespeare in the 1590s. Sheldrake takes the opportunity to hold the mirror up to comedy by reading in parallel with Romeo and Juliet, Love’s […]
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is not a play many people have read. Though were they to read it, they might think they have, because it reads like an anthology of Shakespeare in the 1590s. Sheldrake takes the opportunity to hold the mirror up to comedy by reading in parallel with Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It, along the way outlining some rules of the Shakespearean world.
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