 | Richard Malim - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 380 pages
...were further adapted in Painter's Palace of Pleasure (also 1566-7). Anthony Munday (1560-1633) who was "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.' praised... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - History - 2004 - 198 pages
...thought to liue in Pythagoras: so the sweete wittie soule of Quid Hues in mellifluous & hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &C" (Meres 1598, Ooiv-Oo2r).Yet, as Erne pointed out, we should not assume that Shakespeare... | |
 | Hugh Macrae Richmond - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 590 pages
...Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends.' For drama: 'As Plant us 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... | |
 | John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...Press, 1970, pp. 53,54. 2 Francis Meres again provides an interesting note, for after claiming 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', he cites... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...book, the Palladis Tamia : Wits Treasury, 1 598, Francis Meres deals, among many topics, with drama : 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 . . . He goes on to enumerate... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2005 - 226 pages
...they are proper names, and to put them in italics was the practice of the time) and referred too to 'his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends'. However, Shakespeare's fellow playwright Greene called him 'an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers,... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...dramatist; he had not yet written As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, or The Tempest. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins," Meres proclaims, "so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 147 pages
...contemporary, also used Plautus and Seneca as the comparators for Shakespeare's greatness in his own time. 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. Francis... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Literary Criticism - 2007
...thought to hue in Pythagoras: so the sweete wittie soule of Quid hues in mellifluous & hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c.8 Shakespeare's Sonnets did not appear in print until 1609, but we thus know that... | |
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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... 
