{"product_id":"the-oxford-shakespeare-the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-9780198123675","title":"The Oxford Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Shakespeare | Roger Adaptor Warren\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Two Gentlemen\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46884688396439,"sku":"9780198123675","price":16389.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198123675.webp?v=1770244365","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-shakespeare-the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-9780198123675","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}