 | England - 1871 - 836 pàgines
...and Adonis," " Lucrece," and the " Sonnets," at least twelve of his incomparable plays. " As I'lautns and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines," says Francis Meres, " so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 92 pàgines
...separately, and in quarto form. The next year, Francis Meres published his Wit's Treasury, in which we have the following : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted...excellent in both kinds for the stage." The writer then specifies by title the three plays already named, and also nine others, in confirmation of his judgment.... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pàgines
...: witness his "Venus and Adonis," his " Lucrece," his sugred sonnets among his private friends.' ' 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.' And this... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pàgines
...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 and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for comedy,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Hall - 1874 - 104 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pàgines
...Shakespeare; 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 Latines, so Shakespeare among the * George Steevens, 1780. English is the most excellent in both kinds... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 620 pàgines
...lyrick poets, writers of "satire," "elegy," 'and "pastoral" poetry;' and avers that 'asPlautus arid ' Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy...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... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pàgines
...Italian Poets. In this discourse, the first criticism on Shakspere that ever appeared in print, occurs the following:— " 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... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - 1876 - 348 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
