...Macheth, Julius Cffisar, Antony and Cleopatra, . Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that '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...

...entitled "A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk Latines, «o Shakspeare, among v English, is the most eicellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy,...

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...sonnets among his private friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the...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...

...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,...

...determining the age of Shakspeare's plays, both by what it contains and by what it omits. " As Plautus •nd Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness...

...Winter's Tale, Act n., Sc. I. " as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for tragedy and comedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English,...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage :" and " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid...

...dramas appeared in 1598 in a work by Francis Meres, in which we find these interesting passages : — "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among y» English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy,...

...stands in the original, because it has no where, that we recollect, been quoted quite correctly. " 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,...