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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesacted actor Shakespeare admiration alludes allusion appeared author of Venus Bacon Ben Jonson Burbage called Cambridge certainly comedies contemporaries Curtain dedication doth doubt dramas dramatist Drummond Drusus Earl of Pembroke editions evidence Falstaff fellow folio Francis Meres gentle gentleman Globe Greene Greene's Hamlet hand hath Hemmings and Condell Henry Heywood honesty John Davies John Marston John Shakespeare Jonson knew known later Leonard Digges lines London Lord Love's Labor Lost manner of composition Marlowe Marston mention Michael Drayton Milton noble numbers Oxford peare peare's players plays we know poem printed probably produced published quarto Rape of Lucrece recognized reference remarkable Richard Field Romeo and Juliet Roscius says scene Scolloker seems Sejanus Shakes Sir John Oldcastle sonnets speaks Spenser stage stanza Stratford Suckling Suckling's Theatre thee thou tion title pages Titus Andronicus tragedy Venus and Adonis verses Weever William Shakespeare William Shakespeare's name writing Popular passagesPage 22 - 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... Page 58 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. Page 31 - To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shake-speare Some say (good Will) which I, in sport, do sing Had'st thou not plaid some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king: And beene a king among the meaner sort. Page 61 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest and of an open and free nature... Page 40 - M. William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters. Page 65 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument. Page 34 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit. Page 15 - I am as sory, as if the originall fault had beene my fault, because my selfe haue seene his demeanor no lesse ciuill than he exelent in the qualitie he professes : Besides, diuers of worship haue reported, his vprightnes of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writting, that aprooues his Art. Page 57 - Which when it sounds at best but echoes right; Or blind affection which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seemed to raise. Page 15 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted ; and with one of them, I care not if I never be... Bibliographic information
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