The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780866988292)

A contemporary translation of one of Shakespeare's earliest explorations of love and friendship.

In one of his earliest plays, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare began exploring themes of love and friendship that became the focus of some of his greatest works. Amelia Roper's translation focuses on how the verse sounds--the feeling of the words as spoken by an actor and listened to by an audience. This version offers a new sort of life to the play, letting audiences feel like they're truly hearing it as Shakespeare's audience might have more than four hundred years ago.

This translation of Two Gentlemen of Verona was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0866988297
ISBN-13: 9780866988292
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2024
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.6
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 53883 / Two Gentlemen of Verona