 As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...  Once a Week - Pagina 377a cura di - 1866Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pagine
...part, nor does he mention it as a play in two parts. His words arc these ; " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for comedy, witness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pagine
...Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins ; so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." The writer then instances twelve of the Poet's dramas by title, in proof of his point. His list, however,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pagine
...and Adonis, his Lucrece, bis sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy witness... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 710 pagine
...discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among yc English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness his Getleme of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pagine
...to have appeared in the latter part of the year 1598. His words are these : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, Iris Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's... | |
 | 1921 - 472 pagine
...As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. [Mentions Titus Andronicus] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,... | |
 | 1838 - 598 pagine
...'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 pagine
...Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among the Latins ; so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour... | |
 | 1838 - 604 pagine
...'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagine
...Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for comedy, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his ' Errors,' his ' Love Labours Lost,' his ' Love... | |
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