 | 1838 - 604 pagine
...Macheth, Julius Cffisar, Antony and Cleopatra, . Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that '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,... | |
 | 1838 - 598 pagine
...Cymbeline, Macheth, Julius Caisar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that '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,... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 pagine
...Treasury, printed at the close of 1598. Speaking of Shakespeare as a dramatist, his words are these : " 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: for... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 68 pagine
...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors lost, his Loue labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagine
...friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent...both kinds for the stage; for comedy, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his ' Errors,' his ' Love Labours Lost,' his ' Love Labours Won,' his ' Midsummer's... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pagine
...n., Sc. I. " as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for tragedy and comedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage :" and " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pagine
...stands in the original, because it has no where, that we recollect, been quoted quite correctly. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes his Getleme of Verona,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pagine
...dramas appeared in 1598 in a work by Francis Meres, in which we find these interesting passages : — "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among y» English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes his Getleme of Verona,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pagine
...stands in the original, because it has no where, that we recollect, been quoted quite correctly. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare among ye English is / the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes v his Getleme of... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pagine
...witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. ''' 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 ; for comedy,... | |
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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... 
