 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pagine
...Shakespeare's works given by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia : Wit's Treasury of 1598, where Meres writes: 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... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - 1990 - 276 pagine
...and classical precedents, celebrates Shakespeare's early plays in a famous, if fatuous, comparison: "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" (quoted... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pagine
...speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English." As for drama in general, "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins; so Shakespeare among the English is die most excellent in both kinds for the stage." of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 1999 - 244 pagine
...known assessment of Shakespeare's quality, Meres's uncritical enthusiasm has been endlessly quoted: As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. All that can be usefully said about Meres's encomium is that he supposed that he could get away with... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 pagine
...durchaus mit den Klassikern konkurrieren kann, geht aus der bekanntesten Synkrisis von Meres hervor: 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 CëtlemS of Verona,... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, William Montgomery - 1997 - 692 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 Louf labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pagine
...have realised: As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and 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's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his Midsummer Night's... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pagine
...that has been of greater value to generations of literary scholars than he could ever have realised: 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,... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - 172 pagine
...non-dramatic poetry, Meres compares 'mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare' to 'sweet, witty Ovid'. And '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'. (Meres... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pagine
...are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines', he writes, so Shakespeare among v* English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
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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... 
