| Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pągines
...sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among...comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labor's Lost, his Love's Labour's Wonne" [probably a former name of All's Well that Ends Well],... | |
| Henry Thomas Hall - 1874 - 104 pągines
...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, witness his Gentleman of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour Wonne, his Midsummer's... | |
| John Richard Green - 1874 - 1080 pągines
...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... | |
| Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pągines
...appeared in print, occurs the following:— " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the " best for Comedy and Tragedy among the " Latines : so Shakespeare among...excellent in both kinds for the " stage ; for Comedy, witness his Gentlemen of " Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his " Love labours wonne, his"Midsummer... | |
| Henry Allon - 1875 - 646 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
| Karl Elze - 1876 - 672 pągines
...among the Latines: so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the s tage ; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors,...wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, and his Merchant of Veniee: for Tragedv his Richard the 2. JRichard the 3. Heury the 4. King John, Titus Andronicus und... | |
| Frederick Gard Fleay - 1876 - 348 pągines
...Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucreece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends. 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's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pągines
...Seneca,' he says, ' are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare, 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 Won (or All's... | |
| Popular educator - 1876 - 862 pągines
...As Plantns and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspero 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's Lost,' his 'Love's Labours'... | |
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