...Seneca,' he «ays, ' are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare, in close covert by some brook, Where no •tage; for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's...

...sugred sonnets among his private friends, &e. As Plantus and Seneea are aeeounted the best for eomedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most exeellent in both kinds for the stage ; for eomedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his...

...gedichtet hatte. Die Stelle lautet bekanntlich folgendermassen: „As Flaut us and Seneca are acconnted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines,...Comedy witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, bis Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, and his Merchant of Venice...

...and Seneca," he lays, 'are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare, b c ! Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour Won (or All's Well that Ends Well), his Midsummer Night's Dream,...

...Treasury,' which contains the most important notice of Shakspere of any contemporary writer : — " 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...

...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." These are extracts with which many of our readers must be familiar. They are from ' The Wits' Commonwealth...

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...Wit's Treasury, published in 1598, The Two Gentlemen of Verona stands first in the list. He says : " 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,...

...questionably, that " as Plautus and Seneca arc 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...

...witness his 'Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. " 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 singe; for comedy,...