...and classical precedents, celebrates Shakespeare's early plays in a famous, if fatuous, comparison: "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage" (quoted in Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, 2:317-18). 67Cf. Harry Levin, "Shakespeare's Nomenclature,"...

...speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English." As for drama in general, "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...among the Latins; so Shakespeare among the English is die most excellent in both kinds for the stage." of Shakespeare's plays then in existence and mentions...

...Shakespeare's works 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 among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy,...

...known 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 among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. All that...

...durchaus mit 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,...

...Shakespeare, 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 among the Latines : so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy,...

...that has 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...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 Labour's...

...non-dramatic poetry, Meres compares 'mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare' to 'sweet, witty Ovid'. And 'As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage'. (Meres compares a whole host of English writers to the Greeks and Romans, but Shakespeare is the only...

...conceipted mirthe of Sir JOHN FFALSTOFF."] — MERES (Pattadis Tamia, entered Sta. Reg., Sept. 7, 1598): 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,...

...been often quoted, nevertheless it is here repeated, since it bears upon the present play: 'AsPlautus 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...