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    The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    By William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateFeb 13, 2016
    ISBN9781531203566
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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      The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare

      THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

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      William Shakespeare

      MASQUERADE PRESS

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      This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by William Shakespeare

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      Characters of the Play

      Act I

      Scene I. Verona. An open place.

      Scene II. The same. Garden of Julia’s house.

      Scene III. The same. Antonio’s house.

      Act II

      Scene I. Milan. The Duke’s palace.

      Scene II. Verona. Julia’s house.

      Scene III. The same. A street.

      Scene IV. Milan. The Duke’s palace.

      Scene V. The same. A street.

      Scene Vi. The same. The Duke’s palace.

      Scene Vii. Verona. Julia’s house.

      Act III

      Scene I. Milan. The Duke’s palace.

      Scene II. The same. The Duke’s palace.

      Act IV

      Scene I. The frontiers of Mantua. A forest.

      Scene II. Milan. Outside the Duke’s palace, under Silvia’s chamber.

      Scene III. The same.

      Scene IV. The same.

      Act V

      Scene I. Milan. An abbey.

      Scene II. The same. The Duke’s palace.

      Scene III. The frontiers of Mantua. The forest.

      Scene IV. Another part of the forest.

      The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      By

      William Shakespeare

      The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      Published by Masquerade Press

      New York City, NY

      First published 1592

      Copyright © Masquerade Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Masquerade Press

      Masquerade Press publishes the greatest dramas ever written and performed, from the Ancient Greek playwrights to icons like Shakespeare and modern poets like Oscar Wilde.

      THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

      ..................

      CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

      ..................

      Duke Of Milan, Father to Silvia.

      Valentine and Proteus, two Gentlemen.

      Antonio, Father to Proteus.

      Thurio, a foolish rival to Valentine.

      Eglamour, agent for Silvia in her escape.

      Host, where Julia lodges.

      Outlaws with Valentine.

      Speed, a clownish servant to Valentine.

      Launce, the like to Proteus.

      Panthino, servant to Antonio.

      Julia, beloved of Proteus.

      Silvia, beloved of Valentine.

      Lucetta, waiting-woman to Julia.

      Servants, Musicians.

      Scene: Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua.

      ACT I

      ..................

      SCENE I. VERONA. AN OPEN PLACE.

      ..................

      Enter Valentine and Proteus

      Valentine

      Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:

      Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

      Were’t not affection chains thy tender days

      To the sweet glances of thy honour’d love,

      I rather would entreat thy company

      To see the wonders of the world abroad,

      Than, living dully sluggardized at home,

      Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

      But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,

      Even as I would when I to love begin.

      Proteus

      Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!

      Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest

      Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:

      Wish me partaker in thy happiness

      When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,

      If ever danger do environ thee,

      Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,

      For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.

      Valentine

      And on a love-book pray for my success?

      Proteus

      Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee.

      Valentine

      That’s on some shallow story of deep love:

      How young Leander cross’d the Hellespont.

      Proteus

      That’s a deep story of a deeper love:

      For he was more than over shoes in love.

      Valentine

      ’Tis true; for you are over boots in love,

      And yet you never swum the Hellespont.

      Proteus

      Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.

      Valentine

      No, I will not, for it boots thee not.

      Proteus

      What?

      Valentine

      To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;

      Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment’s mirth

      With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:

      If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;

      If lost, why then a grievous labour won;

      However, but a folly bought with wit,

      Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

      Proteus

      So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.

      Valentine

      So, by your circumstance, I fear you’ll prove.

      Proteus

      ’Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love.

      Valentine

      Love is your master, for he masters you:

      And he that is so yoked by a fool,

      Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

      Proteus

      Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud

      The eating canker dwells, so eating love

      Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

      Valentine

      And writers say, as the most forward bud

      Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,

      Even so by love the young and tender wit

      Is turn’d to folly, blasting in the bud,

      Losing his verdure even in the prime

      And all the fair effects of future hopes.

      But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,

      That art a votary to fond desire?

      Once more adieu! my father at the road

      Expects my coming, there to see me shipp’d.

      Proteus

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