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| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...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 comedy, witness... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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." The writer then instances twelve of the Poet's dramas by title, in proof of his point. His list, however,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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 comedy witness... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...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, witness his Getleme of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pages
...to have appeared in the latter part of the year 1598. His words are these : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, Iris Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's... | |
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...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. [Mentions Titus Andronicus] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 598 pages
...'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 to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
| 1838 - 604 pages
...'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 to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
| Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...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 Lost, his Love's Labour... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid 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 Labours Lost,' his ' Love... | |
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