Die zwei Herren aus Verona – The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Trying to steal your best friend’s girlfriend is considered ungentlemanly even among today’s young people; even wanting to rape your friend’s girlfriend can jeopardise any male friendship. You can only rely on the feelings of women to bring everything to a good end.

As in many of Shakespeare’s comedies, the servants in The Two Gentlemen of Verona are more entertaining than their masters, and the moral principles of perhaps the only dog on Shakespeare’s stage are superior to those of all the masters anyway.

This amusing early work by Shakespeare deals with themes that are timelessly explosive, but could not always be presented as openly as is possible in our time. In recent years, therefore, the comic emotional confusions of the quartet from Verona have been the subject of increased attention on stage and in research.

This bilingual edition is ideal for readers who want to explore the linguistic subtleties and theatrical possibilities of the original text.

Further information can be found on the website of the Stauffenburg-Verlag.