Two Gentlemen of
Verona
Two
gentlemen of Verona is about two men Valentine and Proteus. Valentine at the
start leaves Verona to improve himself and is leaving to travel the world,
while Proteus is stuck in Verona because he is in love with Julia. Furthermore,
Antonio decides to send his son Proteus to the Dukes court in Milan. Before
Proteus leaves he exchanges promise rings with Julia. On Valentines journey he
falls in love with the Dukes daughter Silvia and as Proteus arrives in Milan he
to falls in love with Silvia. Once Proteus gets word of Valentine and Silvia’s
plan to elope he immediately tells the duke, which banished Valentine from the
court. After being banished he is abducted by outlaws and is forced to become
their king. Then as Silvia wants to leave her over protective brother the
outlaws also abduct her. The duke and Proteus send a search party and Proteus
finds Silvia but demands that Silvia gives him a favor for finding her but
Silvia refuses, so Proteus tries to rape her but Valentine breaks it up.
Valentine then offers to give Silvia to Proteus as a token of their friendship.
However, Proteus decides that he loves Julia so he decides to marry Julia and
the Duke allows Valentine to marry Silvia.
Main Characters
1.
Proteus
2.
Valentine
3.
Julia
4.
Silvia
5.
Duke of Milan
6.
Lucetta
7.
Launce
8.
Speed
9.
Thurio
10. Sir
Eglamour
11. Antonio
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Something is up with your links, man. Nice attempt at using them, though. Try to clean this up, please. Other than the links, this is a plot summary of the play from somewhere, not really what the question was asking.
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