Guide Note:The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a classic comedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Written: between 1587 and 1594
- Believed to be Shakespeare's first play
- Primary source: Diana Enamorada, by Jorge de Montemayor
- First Folio published 1623
- First performance: 1762 at Drury Lane
- One of the least performed of Shakespeare's plays
- Main Characters:
- Valentine
- Proteus
- Julia
- Silvia
- Famous Quotes:
- I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
- A man I am, cross'd with adversity.
- Is she not passing fair?
- O heaven! were man but constant, he were perfect.
- Come not within the measure of my wrath.