One character in this play bursts onstage with a monologue in which he compares his tattered shoe to hismother and his whole shoe to his father while leading his dog Crab on a leash. In its first act, themaidservant Lucetta reads a love letter intended for her mistress, who angrily dismisses her andremorsefully calls her back, only to get angry again and rip up the letter. Later in this play, a group ofbanished outlaws demands that one of the title characters be their king. That character stops a rape in thefinal act, in which Thurio is exposed as a villain to the Duke of Milan and Sebastian blows her transvestitecover. For 10 points, name this early Shakespeare comedy about Valentine and Proteus, inhabitants of thetitle Italian city.
One character in this play bursts onstage with a monologue in which he compares his tattered shoe to hismother and his whole shoe to his father while leading his dog Crab on a leash. In its first act, themaidservant Lucetta reads a love letter intended for her mistress, who angrily dismisses her andremorsefully calls her back, only to get angry again and rip up the letter. Later in this play, a group ofbanished outlaws demands that one of the title characters be their king. That character stops a rape in thefinal act, in which Thurio is exposed as a villain to the Duke of Milan and Sebastian blows her transvestitecover. For 10 points, name this early Shakespeare comedy about Valentine and Proteus, inhabitants of thetitle Italian city.
One character in this play bursts onstage with a monologue in which he compares his tattered shoe to hismother and his whole shoe to his father while leading his dog Crab on a leash.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona