The Two Gentlemen of Verona sends us down a rough and thorny path of teenage love and deception that begins as a rosy rom-com and descends into a dark night of the soul. One of Shakespeare's earliest plays (possibly his first), and one of the most experimental and socially potent works he ever created, The Two Gentlemen of Verona shows us a loss of innocence experienced by a group of young people in the final blushes of adolescence.