http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/john-lyly Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:52:08 -0400 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:52:08 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/590/the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-a-satiric-perspective-on-courtly-love By David W. Synyard - In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and others to invert the social order of the play, characterizing the slave as intelligent, cunning, and deceitful. Michael Shapiro writes in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages that English playwright John Lyly expanded upon the Plautine slave to create the Lylian page, who appears in subplots to create “tonal contrast” with an ironic perspective on the main action by satirizing their masters and authority figures through... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:44 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/590/the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-a-satiric-perspective-on-courtly-love