the Two Gentlemen of Vérone ( The Two Gentlemen off Verona ) is a Comédie of William Shakespeare.

This comedy is an early work and regarded by the majority of criticisms as minor part, it for that is seldom put in scene today. The date of composition is dubious, although it is generally thought that it is one of the first writings of Shakespeare. The part is supposed to be written in the beginning of the year 1590, although the first testimony of its existence is in specifications printed by Francis Meres in 1598, and its first publication in the first folio of the parts of Shakespeare in 1623.

The intrigue is inspired by the History of Felix and Felismena in Diana , a collection of stories of the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor. Shakespeare could have read it in a translation, but one thus knows that a part (today disappeared) based on this same history was played London by the troop The Queen' S Men in 1585, the Two Gentlemen of Vérone can be simply only one adaptation of this part.