| Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...Flautas and Seneca are accounted the beet for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspero among tho English is the most excellent in both kinds for the...' Gentlemen of Verona,' his 'Errors,' his 'Love's Labour's Lost,' his 'Love's Labours' Won' [that is, no doubt, ' All's Well that Ends Well '], hie 'Midsummer... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...of it a* a . ' ' Pf Hj f«t Jirst part, nor does he mention it as a play in two parts. His words arc these ; " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrecc, his sugred sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. « " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latincs, so Shakespeare, among yc. English, is the most exc'ellent in both kinds for the stage; for... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...print. In 1598, he put forth a book entitled PaUadis Tamia, Wifs Treasury, which has the following : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." The writer then instances twelve of the Poet's dramas by title, in proof of his point. His list, however,... | |
| Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1815 - 360 pages
...Shakespeare, witnes his Penus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &.c. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare, among y*. English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, bis sugred Sonnets among his priuate 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...entitled " A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among yc English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds...comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, Lis Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Wonne, his Midsummer.Night's Dream, and his Merchant... | |
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. ... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. [Mentions Titus Andronicus] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 598 pages
...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, in addition... | |
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