...discourse, the first criticism on Shakspere that ever appeared in print, occurs the following:— " 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...

...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Admm, hia Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, fifc. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare, among y6. English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for...

...from a passage in the "Palladia Tamia" of Francis Meres, published in 1598. He says : — " As Plantns and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspero among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy witness his...

...notice of Shakspeare by Francis Meres, a contemporary author. ' As Plautus and Seneca,' he says, ' us murmur, oft Shakspeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness...

...published in 1598.* It is the opinion of the best critics that it was * The passage is as follows : "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,...

...published in 1598.* It is the opinion of the best critics that it was * The passage is as follows : " 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,...

...lives in mellifluous and honeytongued Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, hia Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. " 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...

...from an Italian play or a French novel. VIII. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Comedy (1593 — 1598. — * ' As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy witness his Getleme of Verona,...

...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,...

...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...