 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pagine
...Shakespeare; vvitnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private 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 Love's Labor's Lost, his Love's Labour's Wonne" [probably... | |
 | Henry Thomas Hall - 1874 - 104 pagine
...honey-tonguedShakspeere.witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. " 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 Comedy,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pagine
...of these could dispute the supremacy of Shakspere. The verdict of Meres in 1 598, that " Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage," represented the general feeling of his contemporaries. He was fully master at last of the resources... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pagine
...— Period occupied, from 1413 to Henry's marriage with Katharine of France. 1420. • ' As Plautns' and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent ir. both kinds for the stage ; for comedy... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pagine
...discourse, the first criticism on Shakspere that ever appeared in print, occurs the following:— " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the " best for...both kinds for the " stage ; for Comedy, witness his Gentlemen of " Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his " Love labours wonne, his"Midsummer Nights... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1875 - 646 pagine
...avers that ' 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 ' — in witness whereof he names as specimens of his dramas six of each sort, viz. (in addition to... | |
 | 1875 - 620 pagine
...avers that 'asPlautus arid ' 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 ' — in witness whereof he names as sjiecimcns of his dramas six of each sort, viz. (in addition to... | |
 | Evan Thomas Davies - 1876 - 232 pagine
...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Admm, hia Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, fifc. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare, among y6. English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes his Gctlemt of Verona,... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - 1876 - 348 pagine
...Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucreece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends. Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent...both kinds for the stage. For Comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his Midsummer's... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pagine
...and deviser of 'fine filed' phrases conies the celebrated passage enumerating Shakespeare's writings: 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 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... 
