Category: Book The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare “Proteus is an early sea-god and one of several deities whom Homer calls the “Old Man of the Sea”. His name suggests the “first”, as protogonos is the “firstborn”. He became the son of Poseidon in the Olympian or of Nereus and Doris, or of Oceanus and…

The play starts on the main square of Verona where two childhood friends, Valentine and Proteus, saying their emotional farewells, Valentine has to go to Milan and desperately wishes Proteus to go with him. Proteus would be happy to do so, but there is someone in Verona he can’t leave alone: his beloved Julia. Proteus…