Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Shakespeare --- Second Play, Summarized

The competing suitors of the younger daughter of a wealthy man of Padua, stymied in their attempts to woo her by an edict of the father, who prevents courtship of the younger until her older, shrewish sister is married off, promote the courtship of the elder by a strange visitor from Verona, who not only rises the challenge but puts them to shame by showing how beautiful, docile, and faithful he has made the elder daughter, after their marriage. The original suitors of the younger daughter meanwhile lose out to a newer arrival, a young man from Pisa, who adopts a disguise to go undercover to woo her.

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