The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Pelican Shakespeare - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143132245 ISBN 13: 9780143132240

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. 

A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. 

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England and The Illusion of Power.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

¥    I.1 [Enter] Valentine, [and] Proteus.

valentine

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus;

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

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Were't not affection chains thy tender days

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To the sweet glances of thy honored love,

I rather would entreat thy company

To see the wonders of the world abroad

Than, living dully sluggardized at home,

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Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

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But since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein,

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Even as I would when I to love begin.

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proteus

Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu.

Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest

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Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel.

Wish me partaker in thy happiness

When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,

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If ever danger do environ thee,

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Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,

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For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.

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valentine

And on a love book pray for my success?

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proteus

Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.

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valentine

That's on some shallow story of deep love,

How young Leander crossed the Hellespont.

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proteus

That's a deep story of a deeper love,

For he was more than over shoes in love.

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valentine

'Tis true, for you are over boots in love,

And yet you never swum the Hellespont.

proteus

Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots.

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valentine

No, I will not, for it boots thee not.

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proteus     What?

valentine

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,

Coy looks with heartsore sighs, one fading moment's mirth

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With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights.

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If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;

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If lost, why then a grievous labor won;

However, but a folly bought with wit,

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Or else a wit by folly vanquish�d.

proteus

So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.

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valentine

So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove.

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proteus

'Tis Love you cavil at; I am not Love.

valentine

Love is your master, for he masters you;

And he that is so yok�d by a fool

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Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

proteus

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud

The eating canker dwells, so eating love

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Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

valentine

And writers say, as the most forward bud

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Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,

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Even so by love the young and tender wit

Is turned to folly, blasting in the bud,

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Losing his verdure even in the prime,

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And all the fair effects of future hopes.

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But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee

That art a votary to fond desire?

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Once more, adieu. My father at the road

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Expects my coming, there to see me shipped.

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proteus

And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.

valentine

Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.

To Milan let me hear from thee by letters

Of thy success in love, and what news else

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Betideth here in absence of thy friend,

And I likewise will visit thee with mine.

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proteus

All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!

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valentine

As much to you at home! And so farewell.Exit.

proteus

He after honor hunts, I after love.

He leaves his friends to dignify them more;

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I leave myself, my friends, and all for love.

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Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,

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Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,

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War with good counsel, set the world at nought;

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Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.

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[Enter] Speed.

speed Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?

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proteus But now he parted hence to embark for Milan.

speed

Twenty to one then, he is shipped already,

And I have played the sheep in losing him.

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proteus

Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,

And if the shepherd be awhile away.

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speed You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, and I a sheep?

proteus I do.

speed Why then my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.

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proteus A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep.

speed This proves me still a sheep.

proteus True, and thy master a shepherd.

speed Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.

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proteus It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.

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speed The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me. Therefore I am no sheep.

proteus The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows not the sheep. Thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for wages follows not thee. Therefore thou art a sheep.

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speed Such another proof will make me cry "baa."

proteus But dost thou hear? Gav'st thou my letter to Julia?

speed Ay, sir. I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labor.

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proteus Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons.

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speed If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.

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proteus Nay, in that you are astray; 'twere best pound you.

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speed Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for carrying your letter.

proteus You mistake; I mean the pound-a pinfold.

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speed

From a pound to a pin? Fold it over and over,

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'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to your lover.

proteus But what said she?

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speed [Nodding] Ay.

proteus Nod, "ay"? Why, that's noddy.

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speed You mistook, sir. I say she did nod, and you ask me if she did nod, and I say "Ay."

proteus And that set together is "noddy."

speed Now you have taken the pains to set it together, take it for your pains.

proteus No, no. You shall have it for bearing the letter.

speed Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.

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proteus Why, sir, how do you bear with me?

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speed Marry, sir, the letter very orderly, having nothing but the word "noddy" for my pains.

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proteus Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.

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speed And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

proteus Come, come, open the matter in brief. What said she?

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speed Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once delivered.

proteus [Giving him money] Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?

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speed Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.

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proteus Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?

speed Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her: no, not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter. And being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll prove as hard to you in...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143132245
• ISBN 13: 9780143132240
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Herausgeber: Rose Mary Beth
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