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* BetaCouple: Valentine and Sylvia.
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* EasilyForgiven: Proteus at the end of the play.
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* PungeonMaster: Launce, and to a lesser extent Speed.
* SadClown: Launce.
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* ServileSnarker: Speed.
--> '''Proteus:''' Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
--> '''Speed:''' And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
* SadClown: Launce.
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* ServileSnarker: Speed.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Proteus to Sylvia.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In one of the sources for the plot of this story, ''Diana Enamorada'', there is no Valentine counterpart, and the Silvia equivalent is a woman called Celia who falls in love with the page boy (Julia's equivalent in disguise); upon discovering that she cannot have "him", Celia dies of grief.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In one of the sources for the plot of this story, Silvia is partly based on Celia from ''Diana Enamorada'', there is no Enamorada'' who (absent a Valentine counterpart, and the Silvia equivalent is a woman called Celia who counterpart) falls in love with the page boy (Julia's equivalent in disguise); Julia equivalent's page-boy persona and then dies of grief upon discovering that she cannot have "him", Celia dies of grief."him".
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In one of the sources for the plot of this story, ''Diana Enamorada'', there is no Valentine counterpart, and the Silvia equivalent is a woman called Celia who falls in love with the page boy (Julia's equivalent in disguise); upon discovering that she cannot have "him", Celia dies of grief.
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* CanineCompanion: Crab to Launce. With all the dysfunctional relationships going on elsewhere, Launce's love for Crab is widely regarded as the purest love in the entire play.
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* CanineCompanion: Crab to Launce. With all the dysfunctional relationships going on elsewhere, Launce's love for his dog Crab is widely regarded as the purest love in the entire play.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Proteus, big-time.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Proteus, big-time. After falling in love with Silvia, he betrays his friend Valentine in order to get rid of the competition.
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* NearRapeExperience: Proteus' threatened rape of Sylvia in the finale.
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* NearRapeExperience: Proteus' threatened rape of Sylvia in the finale.finale is interrupted by Valentine.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: We never see the bandits in the forest actually engage in banditry.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Sir Eglamour, the Milanese friend of Silvia, who has the same name as the suitor of Julia who's mentioned briefly in act 1.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: We never see the bandits in the forest actually engage in banditry.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: We never see the bandits in the forest actually engage in banditry.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
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** So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
** So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
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* SweetPollyOliver: Julia.Julia dresses up as a man and calls herself "Sebastian".
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from ''Literature/TheDecameron'' (Day 10, story 8). Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman (although the two of them do conspire to pull a BedTrick on her, which is essentially rape by deception.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from ''Literature/TheDecameron'' (Day 10, story 8). Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain remains loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman (although the two of them do conspire to pull a BedTrick on her, which is essentially rape by deception.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the story "Titus and Gisippus" in ''Literature/TheDecameron''. Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman (although the two of them do conspire to pull a BedTrick on her, which is essentially rape by deception.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the ''Literature/TheDecameron'' (Day 10, story "Titus and Gisippus" in ''Literature/TheDecameron''.8). Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman (although the two of them do conspire to pull a BedTrick on her, which is essentially rape by deception.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the story "Titus and Gisippus" in ''Literature/TheDecameron''. Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the story "Titus and Gisippus" in ''Literature/TheDecameron''. Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman. woman (although the two of them do conspire to pull a BedTrick on her, which is essentially rape by deception.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the story "Titus and Gisippus" in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''Decameron''. Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Proteus is much more villainous than his counterparts from the two stories on which ''The Two Gentlemen'' is based: Felix from ''Diana Enamorada'' and Titus from the story "Titus and Gisippus" in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''Decameron''.''Literature/TheDecameron''. Felix is likewise a false lover but neither betrays a best friend (there being no Valentine counterpart) nor attempts rape, while Titus does his utmost to remain loyal to and honest with his best friend Gisippus despite being in love with the same woman.
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* ArrangedMarriage / ParentalMarriageVeto: Sylvia's father wants her to marry Tyrio, and banishes Valentine when he learns that Valentine's in love with her.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography / CriticalResearchFailure: '''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 [[http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today]], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography / CriticalResearchFailure: '''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 [[http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today]], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
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* ArrangedMarriage / ParentalMarriageVeto: ArrangedMarriage: Sylvia's father wants her to marry Tyrio, and banishes Valentine when he learns that Valentine's in love with her.
*ArtisticLicenseGeography / CriticalResearchFailure: '''Averted''': while ArtisticLicenseGeography: 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 [[http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today]], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners / VitriolicBestBuds: Proteus and Valentine, as well as their respective servants, Launce and Speed.
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In 1971, [[TheMusical a rock musical adaptation of this play]] was successfully produced on Broadway with a book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, lyrics by Guare, and music by [[Theatre/{{Hair}} Galt MacDermot]], and won the 1972 Tony Award for Best Musical (beating out both ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'' and ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'').
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In 1971, [[TheMusical a rock musical adaptation of this play]] was successfully produced on Broadway with a book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, lyrics by Guare, and music by [[Theatre/{{Hair}} Galt MacDermot]], and won the 1972 Tony Award for Best Musical (beating out both ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'' and ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'').
''Film/{{Grease}}'').
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In 1971, [[TheMusical a rock musical adaptation of this play]] was successfully produced on Broadway with a book by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, lyrics by Guare, and music by [[Theatre/{{Hair}} Galt MacDermot]], and won the 1972 Tony Award for Best Musical (beating out both ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'' and ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'').
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Has nothing to do with [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet that other play]], which is also set in Verona.
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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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''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies.comedies, and perhaps even his earliest play period. 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...Julia. Proteus contrives to have Valentine banished by the emperor (or Duke, the play is just a bit inconsistent) so he can have Sylvia all to himself, but she is repulsed by his treachery. Meanwhile Julia has come to Milan disguised as a boy to try to reunite with Proteus, and Valentine has become the leader of a band of lovable rogues.
''Two Gents'' is a controversial play for many reasons, not the least of which is Proteus' attempted rape of Sylvia near the end and his ''very'' quick forgiveness. Many see it as one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, and the hasty ending seems to indicate a fledgling playwright. However, a lot of the tropes Shakespeare would use several times over throughout the course of his career first show up here: the clownish servant, the girl disguised as a boy, etc.
''Two Gents'' is a controversial play for many reasons, not the least of which is Proteus' attempted rape of Sylvia near the end and his ''very'' quick forgiveness. Many see it as one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, and the hasty ending seems to indicate a fledgling playwright. However, a lot of the tropes Shakespeare would use several times over throughout the course of his career first show up here: the clownish servant, the girl disguised as a boy, etc.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as this.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as this.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder
AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: It doesn't take long for Proteus to forget his vows of eternal love to Julia after he sees Sylvia.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off asthis.this to modern viewers. In Shakespeare's day, male friendship was seen as a higher ideal than romantic love between a man and a woman.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as
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** For that matter, we've got either "Thurio," "Turio," or "Tyrio."
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* StrippingTheScarecrow: In the musical version, Julia and Lucetta sing about getting their SweetPollyOliver costumes from a scarecrow.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Proteus' response toward the end of the play, after realizing just how far he's fallen.
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* [=~The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything~=]: We never see the bandits in the forest actually engage in banditry.
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* UrineTrouble: In a monologue, Launce recounts how he was kicked out of a supper after taking the blame for Crab's wetting the floor.
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* UrineTrouble: In a monologue, Launce recounts how he was kicked out a few humiliating experiences of a supper after taking the blame for Crab's wetting the floor.this kind with Crab.
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--> 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 asI 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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--> 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 asI 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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--> Thou thinkest not of this now. 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 asI 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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--> Thou thinkest not of this now. 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 asI 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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--> Thou thinkest not of this now. 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?
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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--> Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam
Madam Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I asI do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst thou ever see me do such a trick?
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* ABoyAndHisX: Launce and his dog. With all the dysfunctional relationships going on elsewhere, Launce's love for Crab is widely regarded as the purest love in the entire play.
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* UrineTrouble: In a monologue, Launce recounts how he was kicked out of a supper after taking the blame for Crab's wetting the floor.
--> Thou thinkest not of this now. 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?
--> Thou thinkest not of this now. 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
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** Valentine, the patron saint of lovers.
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** [[BeMyValentine Valentine, the patron saint of lovers.lovers]].
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* IronicNickname: Speed. (Not entirely ironic. He's said to "have a quick wit"..."And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.")
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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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!!Tropes featured in ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' include:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as this.
* ArrangedMarriage / ParentalMarriageVeto: Sylvia's father wants her to marry Tyrio, and banishes Valentine when he learns that Valentine's in love with her.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography / CriticalResearchFailure: '''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 [[http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today]], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
* BetaCouple: Valentine and Sylvia.
* ABoyAndHisX: Launce and his dog. With all the dysfunctional relationships going on elsewhere, Launce's love for Crab is widely regarded as the purest love in the entire play.
* CloudCuckoolander: Launce
* DeusExMachina: The finale, in which all the play's conflicts are resolved because the people who were perpetuating them simultaneously get bored of doing so.
* EasilyForgiven: Proteus at the end of the play.
* FirstGirlWins: Proteus ends up realizing he's in love with Julia after all, and the ending implies that they're about to get married.
* HeterosexualLifePartners / VitriolicBestBuds: Proteus and Valentine, as well as their respective servants, Launce and Speed.
* IronicNickname: Speed. (Not entirely ironic. He's said to "have a quick wit"..."And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.")
* IWillWaitForYou: Julia for Proteus. Until she gets tired of waiting and goes after him.
* TheJeeves: Speed.
* LesYay: Julia and Sylvia have a moment, with Julia disguised as a boy no less.
* LongDistanceRelationship: The one between Proteus and Julia doesn't work out so well...
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Proteus, big-time.
* MeaningfulName:
** Valentine, the patron saint of lovers.
** Proteus was named after a sea monster of mythology who could change its shape, indicating Proteus' inconstancy and treacherousness.
** The servant Speed is said to have a "quick wit". Doubles as an ironic name, since he's constantly running late and "chidden for being too slow".
** Crab the dog is probably named, not after the animal, but after a "crab-apple", commonly referred to simply as a "crab"--appropriate, since Launce calls him "the sourest-natured dog that lives".
* MisterMuffykins: The "little jewel" of a dog that Proteus attempted to send to Silvia is implied to have been this; Launce contemptuously refers to it as a "squirrel". It's stolen from Launce by a bunch of marketplace delinquents, at which point he attempts to give his own dog, Crab, to Silvia, the logic being that Crab is [[BiggerIsBetter ten times bigger than the other dog and therefore superior.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Eglamour apparently vowed perpetual chastity after the lady he loved died.
* NearRapeExperience: Proteus' threatened rape of Sylvia in the finale.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Valentine, the NiceGuy, treats his servant, Speed, as a friend. Proteus treats his own servant, Launce, like dirt, and appropriately he turns out to be a heel.
* NobleFugitive: 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.
* PungeonMaster: Launce, and to a lesser extent Speed.
* ServileSnarker: Speed.
--> '''Proteus:''' Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
--> '''Speed:''' And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
* StalkerWithACrush: Proteus to Sylvia.
* SweetPollyOliver: Julia.
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!!Tropes featured in ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' include:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite the play's basically heterosexual LoveDodecahedron, it's not hard for Valentine and Proteus to come off as this.
* ArrangedMarriage / ParentalMarriageVeto: Sylvia's father wants her to marry Tyrio, and banishes Valentine when he learns that Valentine's in love with her.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography / CriticalResearchFailure: '''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 [[http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf are still around today]], though their transportation uses have been replaced by modern transportation methods.
* BetaCouple: Valentine and Sylvia.
* ABoyAndHisX: Launce and his dog. With all the dysfunctional relationships going on elsewhere, Launce's love for Crab is widely regarded as the purest love in the entire play.
* CloudCuckoolander: Launce
* DeusExMachina: The finale, in which all the play's conflicts are resolved because the people who were perpetuating them simultaneously get bored of doing so.
* EasilyForgiven: Proteus at the end of the play.
* FirstGirlWins: Proteus ends up realizing he's in love with Julia after all, and the ending implies that they're about to get married.
* HeterosexualLifePartners / VitriolicBestBuds: Proteus and Valentine, as well as their respective servants, Launce and Speed.
* IronicNickname: Speed. (Not entirely ironic. He's said to "have a quick wit"..."And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.")
* IWillWaitForYou: Julia for Proteus. Until she gets tired of waiting and goes after him.
* TheJeeves: Speed.
* LesYay: Julia and Sylvia have a moment, with Julia disguised as a boy no less.
* LongDistanceRelationship: The one between Proteus and Julia doesn't work out so well...
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Proteus, big-time.
* MeaningfulName:
** Valentine, the patron saint of lovers.
** Proteus was named after a sea monster of mythology who could change its shape, indicating Proteus' inconstancy and treacherousness.
** The servant Speed is said to have a "quick wit". Doubles as an ironic name, since he's constantly running late and "chidden for being too slow".
** Crab the dog is probably named, not after the animal, but after a "crab-apple", commonly referred to simply as a "crab"--appropriate, since Launce calls him "the sourest-natured dog that lives".
* MisterMuffykins: The "little jewel" of a dog that Proteus attempted to send to Silvia is implied to have been this; Launce contemptuously refers to it as a "squirrel". It's stolen from Launce by a bunch of marketplace delinquents, at which point he attempts to give his own dog, Crab, to Silvia, the logic being that Crab is [[BiggerIsBetter ten times bigger than the other dog and therefore superior.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Eglamour apparently vowed perpetual chastity after the lady he loved died.
* NearRapeExperience: Proteus' threatened rape of Sylvia in the finale.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Valentine, the NiceGuy, treats his servant, Speed, as a friend. Proteus treats his own servant, Launce, like dirt, and appropriately he turns out to be a heel.
* NobleFugitive: 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.
* PungeonMaster: Launce, and to a lesser extent Speed.
* ServileSnarker: Speed.
--> '''Proteus:''' Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
--> '''Speed:''' And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: So...is it "Lance" or "Launce"?
* StalkerWithACrush: Proteus to Sylvia.
* SweetPollyOliver: Julia.
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