#sorry for twogents posting again but. feels good. feels organic

[suits-of-woe]

the two gentlemen of verona is fun because it's (maybe) shakespeare's first play and there are a lot of elements in it (julia dressing up as a boy to serve the guy she's in love with, valentine's banishèd speech, etc) that you can tell he's sort of testing out and will refine later in better plays. but it's ALSO the only play in the canon with a dog in it. which leads me to conclude that dealing with crab was such an absolute nightmare in production that for the rest of his entire 36-play-long career shakespeare was like "holy fuck never again"