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''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' is one of [[Shakespeare]]'s earliest comedies
The two gentlemen in the title, Proteus and Valentine, are sent by their fathers to the imperial court at Milan, where they both fall in love with the emperor's daughter Sylvia. Unfortunately, Proteus was already in love with his childhood friend Julia...
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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Despite the play's basically heterosexual [[Love Dodecahedron]], it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as this.
* [[Arranged Marriage]] / [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: Sylvia's father wants her to marry Tyrio, and banishes Valentine when he learns that Valentine's in love with her.
* [[Artistic License Geography]] / [[Critical Research Failure]]: '''Averted''': while the gentlemen and their servants take a ship to get from Verona to Padua (or Milan, the script says both at different times), and all three cities do not have access to the sea, the three cities did have access to an extensive network of canals linking Verona to Padua and Milan. Some of these canals [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511005339/http://
* [[Be My Valentine]]
* [[Beta Couple]]: Valentine and Sylvia.
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* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Julia for Proteus. Until she gets tired of waiting and goes after him.
* [[The Jeeves]]: Speed.
* [[Long
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Proteus, big-time.
* [[Malaproper]]: Launce.
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* [[Mister Muffykins]]: The "little jewel" of a dog that Proteus attempted to send to Silvia is implied to have been this; Launce contemptuously refers to it as a "squirrel". It's stolen from Launce by a bunch of marketplace delinquents, at which point he attempts to give his own dog, Crab, to Silvia, the logic being that Crab is [[Bigger Is Better|ten times bigger than the other dog and therefore superior.]]
* [[The Mourning After]]: Eglamour apparently vowed perpetual chastity after the lady he loved died.
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* [[Nice to
* [[Noble Fugitive]]: The bandits, and eventually Valentine as well.
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* [[Pungeon Master]]: Launce, and to a lesser extent Speed.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Speed.
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'''Speed:''' And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse. }}
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stalker
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Julia.
* [[Urine Trouble]]: In a monologue, Launce recounts a few humiliating experiences of this kind with Crab.
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