The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare | Characters, Summary, Analysis
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of the earliest plays by William Shakespeare that he wrote around 1594 and the play was probably first performed in 1598. The primary source for the plot of the play is considered to be the Spanish romance titled La Diana Enamorada by Jorge de Montemayor which was published in 1559 and was translated in English in 1582. Other sources include Thomas Elyot’s story of Titus and Gissipus told in The Book of the Governor (1531), Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, and John Lyly’s Eupheus: Anatomy of Wit (1578).
The play deals with the themes of friendship, fidelity, the transformative power of lust, and the inconstancy of mercurial characters. It is a comedy and while The Two Gentlemen of Verona is considered the weakest play by the bard, the value of this play lies most in Shakespeare's first versions of characters who appear later in his more mature plays. It was the first English play that presents a woman disguised as a man (cross-dressing). It was an innovative idea because female actors weren’t allowed to perform on the stage and often male actors used to perform the female roles. However, this was the first play that required a male actor, performing a female role, to cross-dress and appear as a male again. The play follows a Five-Act structure.
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