Goldberg, Jonathan. “Shakespearean Characters: The Generation of Silvia.” In Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts, pp. 68-100. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Examines the significance of Silvia's name to her character and to her destiny within The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The critic goes on to demonstrate the relational significance between name and character within several other Shakespearean texts.

Hallett, Charles A. “‘Metamorphising’ Proteus: Reversal Strategies in The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” in Two Gentlemen of Verona: Critical Essays, edited by June Schlueter, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996, pp. 153-77.

Examines the reversals experienced by the principal characters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and contends that the reversals are unconvincing and unmotivated.

Holmberg, Arthur. “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Shakespearean Comedy as a Rite of Passage.” Queen's Quarterly 90, No. 1 (Spring 1983): 33-44.

Emphasizes the importance of seeing a live performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in order to understand the play as symbolic of the rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Jaarsma, Richard J. “The ‘Lear Complex’ in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Literature and Psychology XXII, No. 4 (1972): 199-202.

Demonstrates that psychological parallels exist between the father-daughter confrontations in King Lear (between Lear and Cordelia) and The Two Gentlemen of Verona(between the Duke of Milan and Silvia).

Kiefer, Frederick. “Love Letters in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Shakespeare Studies 18 (1986): 65-85.

Explains the dramaturgical significance of the love letters written in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, maintaining that such letters are used for theatrical purposes, such as advancing the plot and revealing character, as well as to explore a paradox: “that people seek to express the most intense emotion by the most conventional of literary modes, the epistolary.”

Thomas, Paul R. “The Marriage of True Minds—Ideal Friendship in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Iowa State Journal of Research 57, No. 2 (November 1982): 187-92.

Argues that the difficulties modern readers have with understanding the characters of Julia and Silvia dissolve when the concept of ideal friendship or “amite” is properly understood.