Talk:The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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The opening statement, that the play is often considered inferior and is seldom performed today is I think unjustified. The play is still perfomed often (it was half the season for New York's Shakespeare in the Park for 2005 for example). I agree that it is generally not considered one of Shakespeare's best plays, but it is still good and modern criticism of the play is more favorable than criticism of the past. Calling it sexy inferior and seldom performed makes it appear that this play is just outright bad which it is not.

It doesn't say it's inferior, it says it's considered inferior by some. If modern criticism is becoming more favorable, you should add a note about that in the intro. :) The Singing Badger 21:20, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree the play is performed more than the original author suspects. There are two productons of it in Los Angeles this summer, alone. perhaps "not as widely performed" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kivadiva (talk • contribs) 17:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC-7)