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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... "
William Shakespeare Not an Impostor - Page 79
by George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 122 pages
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...Flautas and Seneca are accounted the beet for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspero among tho English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his 'Errors,' his 'Love's Labour's Lost,' his 'Love's Labours'...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour Wonnc, his MidsummerNight's...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 9-10

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latincs, so Shakespeare, among yc. English, is the most exc'ellent in both kinds for the stage; for comedy, witnes his Ge~tleme" of Verona, his Errors, his Loue Labor's Lost, his Loue Labour's Wonnc, his Midsummer's Night...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...following : " 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." The writer then instances twelve of the Poet's dramas by title, in proof of his point. His list, however,...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 4

Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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...excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Lout: labors lost, his Lime labors wonne, his Midsummers...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...soil Warner among our English poets. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy ami tragedy among the Latines; so Shakespeare among the...excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Lout labors lost, his Lout labors wonne, his Midsummers...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among yc English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness his Getleme of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labor's Lost, his Love Labour's Wonne, his Midsummer'...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Prolegomena (cont'd): Malone's ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 738 pages
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed ...

English drama - 1826 - 514 pages
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 293

Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...friends, etc. ... 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. [Mentions Titus Andronicus] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,...
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