 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - Liczba stron: 420
...and deviser of 'fine filed' phrases conies the celebrated passage enumerating Shakespeare's writings: 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... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - Liczba stron: 442
...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... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - 1990 - Liczba stron: 276
...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 in Smith,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - Liczba stron: 276
...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 and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy,... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - Liczba stron: 460
...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,... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 1999 - Liczba stron: 244
...known assessment of Shakespeare's quality, Meres's uncritical enthusiasm has been endlessly quoted: 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. All that... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, William Montgomery - 1997 - Liczba stron: 692
...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 and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy,... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - Liczba stron: 564
...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, witness... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 2000 - Liczba stron: 172
...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 compares a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - Liczba stron: 564
...conceipted mirthe of Sir JOHN FFALSTOFF."] — MERES (Pattadis Tamia, entered Sta. Reg., Sept. 7, 1598): 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,... | |
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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... 
