The Oxford Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

ISBN-13: 9780198123675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 220 str.

William Shakespeare

Opis

This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona offers a complete consideration of all aspects of the text. It interprets the play less as a contribution to a Renaissance literary debate between love and friendship (the traditional academic view) than as a dramatization of competing kinds of love--a theatrical counterpart to Shakespeare's Sonnets. It analyzes the lyrical language with which these kinds of love are expressed, and explores the tension between lyricism and the violence of some of the play's events, notably the concluding attempted rape scene. It also provides further evidence that The Two Gentlemen is Shakespeare's earliest surviving play, and proposes a new actor for whom the principal comic role of Lance may have been designed. This is the only edition to offer a setting of the song "Who is Silvia?" prepared by Guy Woolfenden from an Elizabethan source, and is therefore the only edition on the market to provide a complete text for performance.

Recenzje

Roger Warren's edition of the play in the excellent Oxford series is emphatically performance-orientated throughout.

O autorze

Roger Warren is the editor of the Oxford Shakespeare editions of Cymbeline, Pericles, Henry VI, Part 2, and (with Stanley Wells) Twelfth Night. He works extensively in the professional theatre.