... of Two Gentlemen of Verona, to define a comic position that gives the character more parity with the actor—the position of characters the audience laughs with as opposed to those it laughs at. Weimann's example is Proteus' servant, the clown Launce. He...

...This essay examines questions of Dante and Islam, as well as Judaism and Christianity, through the historically specific lens of Verona and the court of Cangrande della Scala as well as a personal scholarly journey. By drawing attention to the transmission of the Liber scale machometi...