Ghost character that when Shakespeare dramatised the poem and expanded Mercutio's role, he introduced a brother for him in order to suggest a more fraternal character. Shakespeare appears to be the first dramatist to have used the name Valentine prior to "Romeo and Juliet", but he himself had actually used the name previously. In "Two Gentlemen of Verona", a play about two brothers and also set in Verona, Valentine is a true and constant lover and Proteus is a fickle one. While not primarily based on it, "Two Gentlemen of Verona" adapts several incidents from Brooke's poem, and in all these instances
Amoeba proteus amoeboid protozoa various names: Carl Linnaeus termed Rösel's organism "Chaos protheus" in 1758. Otto Friedrich Müller referred to it as "Proteus diffluens" in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name "Amoeba proteus" to describe Rösel's "Proteus", "Proteus diffluens", and another described amoeba "Amoeba princeps". Amoeba proteus Amoeba proteus (core of Amoeba), alternatively Chaos diffluens, is an amoeba closely related to the giant amoebae and a species commonly bought at science supply stores. This small protozoan uses tentacular protuberances called pseudopodia to move and phagocytose smaller unicellular organisms,(which may be greater in size than of amoeba), which are enveloped