Two Gentlemen of Verona

　　Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature.

　　A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history of The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals changing conceptions of the play.