Materials for the Life of ShakespearePierce Butler University of North Carolina Press, 1930 - 200 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 8
Page 18
... Plautus . How that happened , I cannot easily divine , since , as I hinted before , I do not take him to have been master of Latin enough to read it in the original , and I know of no translation of Plautus so old as his time . As I ...
... Plautus . How that happened , I cannot easily divine , since , as I hinted before , I do not take him to have been master of Latin enough to read it in the original , and I know of no translation of Plautus so old as his time . As I ...
Page 78
... Plautus : so hath Eng- land three ancient poets , Chaucer , Gower , and Lydgate . As Homer is reputed the Prince of Greek poets , and Pe- trarch of Italian poets : so Chaucer is accounted the God of English poets . As Homer was the ...
... Plautus : so hath Eng- land three ancient poets , Chaucer , Gower , and Lydgate . As Homer is reputed the Prince of Greek poets , and Pe- trarch of Italian poets : so Chaucer is accounted the God of English poets . As Homer was the ...
Page 82
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Contents
EARLY BIOGRAPHY AND ANECDOTE | 1 |
CRITICISM AND REPUTATION AMONG | 49 |
SOCIAL STANDING AND PERSONAL REP | 94 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actor admirable aforesaid Aubrey Ben Jonson Blackfriars Burbage Chettle Christopher Marlowe church coat of arms Comedy daughter Davenant death defendant documents doth Drayton English excellent famous father fault Francis Meres Gabriel Harvey gentlemen give given Globe Greek Greene's Gullio Halliwell-Phillipps Hamlet hath Heminges Henry Heywood honor Horace imitate Ingenioso Item John John Heminges John Shakespeare Johnson King Latin living London Lord Lucrece Lucy Marlowe marriage married matter Meres Michael Drayton Mountjoy Nash nature Ovid plaintiff Plautus players playhouse plays poems poet's poetry poets pounds praise printed published Queen Quiney quote records Richard Richard Burbage Robert Greene Rowe's saith scene scholar Shake Shakspere Allusion Book Sonnets sort speare Spenser stage story Stratford upon Avon Susanna Theatre thee things Thomas Thomas Nash thou tion tragedy tragic unto Venus and Adonis verse William Shakespeare writ writing written