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| Frederick Gard Fleay - 1876 - 348 sayfa
...Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucreece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends. Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent...Comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour's Lost, his Love's Labour's Won, his Midsummer's Night's Dream, and his Merchant of Venice... | |
| Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 sayfa
...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 sayfa
...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...excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors lost, his Loue labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
| Phyllis Rackin - 1990 - 276 sayfa
...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... | |
| James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 sayfa
...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... | |
| Peter Thomson - 1999 - 244 sayfa
...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...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. All that can be usefully said about Meres's encomium is that he supposed that he could get away with... | |
| Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 sayfa
...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, witnes his CëtlemS of Verona,... | |
| Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, William Montgomery - 1997 - 692 sayfa
...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...excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors lost, his Louf labours wonne, his Midsummers... | |
| Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 sayfa
...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...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;... | |
| Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 sayfa
...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,... | |
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