 | 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...comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labour's Lost, his Love Labour's Won, his Midsummer's Night Dream, and his Merchant of Venice;... | |
 | 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...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage" (quoted in Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, 2:317-18). 67Cf. Harry Levin, "Shakespeare's Nomenclature,"... | |
 | 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...among the Latins; so Shakespeare among the English is die most excellent in both kinds for the stage." of Shakespeare's plays then in existence and mentions... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his Midsummer Night's Dream, and his Merchant of Venice; for... | |
 | 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...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage'. (Meres compares a whole host of English writers to the Greeks and Romans, but Shakespeare is the only... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - Liczba stron: 522
...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 stage; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
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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... 
