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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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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://wwwwww2.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
* [[Be My Valentine]]
* [[Beta Couple]]: Valentine and Sylvia.
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* [[The Mourning After]]: Eglamour apparently vowed perpetual chastity after the lady he loved died.
* [[Near-Rape Experience]]: Proteus' threatened rape of Sylvia in the finale.
* [[Nice to Thethe Waiter]]: Valentine, the [[Nice Guy]], treats his servant, Speed, as a friend. Proteus treats his own servant, Launce, like dirt, and appropriately he turns out to be a heel.
* [[Noble Fugitive]]: The bandits, and eventually Valentine as well.
* ~[[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything~]]: We never see the bandits in the forest actually engage in banditry.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: Launce, and to a lesser extent Speed.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Speed.
{{quote| '''Proteus:''' Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.<br />
'''Speed:''' And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse. }}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Proteus to Sylvia.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Julia.
* [[Urine Trouble]]: In a monologue, Launce recounts a few humiliating experiences of this kind with Crab.
{{quote| Nay, I remember the trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst thou ever see me do such a trick?}}
 
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