 | Books - 1880 - 492 pages
...appeared in the Palladis Tamia of Francis Meres, published in September, 1598. The passage reads thus : "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,... | |
 | Ludwig Herric - 1880 - 1030 pages
...Shakespeare bis zum Jahre 1598 bereits gedichtet hatte. Die Stelle lautet bekanntlich folgendermassen: „As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines , so Shakespeare among the Engliah is the most excellent in both kimis fov the stage : for... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...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 - 442 pages
...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 - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...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,... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 460 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 692 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...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,... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...when a student named Francis Meres praised the Bard as the top English author. How sweet it 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. For comedy, witness... | |
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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... 
