SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: BACCHAE AND TWO GENTS OF VERONA The Bacchae was about a demigod who wanted to get revenge on his mother’s family, which, in the end, he accomplished. In the Two Gentlemen of Verona, however, all of the characters had the chance to get revenge or not forgive Proteus, yet, in the end, they all forgave him and became friends with him again. Another difference is how the plays would have been staged. In Bacchae, there was only one location where all the characters would have been. Even though, throughout the play, they traveled to mountains and palaces, when being performed the actors would be in the middle of the stage the majority of the time, and the settings would not have change. In Shakespeare’s play’s however,
