 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...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...his Loue labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice: for Tragedy his Richard the 2. Richard the 3. Henry the 4. King lohn, Titus... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 460 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 692 pages
...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...Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors lost, his Louf labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice: for Tragedy his Richard... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...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, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...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,... | |
 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...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...Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, & his Merchant of Venice: forTragedy... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
