The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Applause First Folio Editions (Applause Shakespeare Library Folio Texts) Review

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(More customer reviews)Many people would like to say that Shakespeare did not write this play. But this is hardly fair. Even with the world's finest writers such as Marlowe and Dickens, not every single thing they write can be a masterpiece. But what makes "The Two Gentleman of Verona" worthreading? Well,Shakespeare presents us with a valid theme. (Conflictsoften exist between romance and friendship.) There is also beautifullanguage. Launce and his dog offer some interesting comedy as well as abeautiful and memorable passage in 2.3. The scene where Valentine isaccepted amonst the outlaws is memorable. This is Shakespeare's first playwhere a woman (Julia) disuises herself as man to do some investigating. Itis also easy to see that several elements of this play were used in"Romeo and Juliet." To be sure, this is not a masterpiece like"The Comedy of Errors," "Richard III," or "KingLear." But it is still an good study that is worth some interest.

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If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.
The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos.
The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of ShakespeareÕs work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

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