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...Beaumont and Fletcher. The present extract is spoken by Neander. To begin, then, with Shakespeare: he was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he...

...playwrights of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as contemporary France, Dryden wrote: '[Shakespeare] was the man who of all Modern and perhaps Ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too', concluding that while he admired Jonson's learning,...

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...further back from individual plays, we, like Dryden, wonder at the range and power of his mind : ' He was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient...Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.' Coleridge was later to call him 'myriadminded ', in that phrase catching the bafflement that mixes...

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...explicitly and implicitly censorious, in his Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) he praises Shakespeare as 'the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient, poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul'. The first historian of the English theatre, Gerard Langbaine, who claimed to own copies of 980 English...

...Shakespeare. In what is perhaps the most famous passage of the Essay, Neander describes Shakespeare as "The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul." This preamble ends: "If I would compare [Jonson] with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more...

...Shakespeare. In what is perhaps the most famous passage of the Essay, Neander describes Shakespeare as "The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most com-prehensive soul." This preamble ends: "If I would compare [Jonson] with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more...

...have something of human philosophy? And, according to Johnson, Dryden too thought that Shakespeare "of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul."21 The most comprehensive soul is hard to distinguish from the most comprehensive mind. Such...