Author:William Shakespeare,Russell Jackson
An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one of Shakespeare's most memorable clowns. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by Russell Jackson.
'Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale'
Leaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once there, however, he falls in love with his friend's new sweetheart and resolves to seduce her. Love-crazed and desperate, he is soon moved to commit cynical acts of betrayal, revealing how passion can prove more powerful than even the strongest loyalty owed to a friend.
This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to the play, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation
—— The TimesAn unforgettable read, don't miss it
—— Sunday TimesWorks so brilliantly.
—— Daily TelegraphBrookner has a merciless comic gift.
—— Sunday TimesFans of Sophie Kinsella will love this effervescent story.
—— Sunday ExpressOnly Emily Brontë exposes her imagination to the dark spirit
—— V. S. PritchettHers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar
—— Virginia WoolfCommonly thought of as 'romantic', but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Brontë's characters subject one another to extremes of physical and psychological violence
—— Sarah WatersLambasted when it came out as irredeemably perverse and, I quote, as practically "French"'
—— A. L. KennedyThe greatest love story ever told, Heathcliff the hero being a wild, stormy, gothic fellow who will not rest until his beloved Cathy is in his arms again, even though she died some years previously. My favourite moment comes when he bribes the sexton who buried Cathy to bury him next to her, with the sides of their coffins left open, so when they're dug up 50 years hence nobody will know which bones are his, and which are hers
—— Patrick McGrath
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