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The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a stage play in the form of a comedy. In William Shakespeare's day, a comedy was a literary work with a happy ending. The play centers on the friendship of two young men and their romantic adventures with two young ladies. It was an early attempt by Shakespeare at high comedy, a type of comedy focusing on the life of upper classes. The dialogue in high comedy contains an abundance of witty conversation.
Composition and Publication
Date Written: Between 1589 and 1595, probably 1592 and/or 1593.
Date Published: 1623 in the First Folio, the first authorized collection of Shakespeare's plays.
First Performance
No records exist establishing the date of the first performance. However, a reference to the play appears in a 1598 publication, Palladis Tamia (Wits Treasury), by the English author Francis Meres (1565?-1647). This reference means that Shakespeare's play may have been performed before Palladis Tamia.
Sources
Shakespeare based The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Bartholomew Young’s translation of Los Siete Libros de la Diana (The Seven Books of the Diana), by Jorge de Montemayor (1520-1561). Shakespeare also drew upon a tale of two friends, Titus and Gisippus, that appeared in The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and reappeared in "The Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus," a story in The Boke Named the Governour, by Sir Thomas Elyot (1590?-1546).