...book, the Palladis Tamia : Wits Treasury, 1 598, Francis Meres deals, among many topics, with drama : As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...among the English is the most excellent in both kinds . . . He goes on to enumerate those whom he considers the most eminent tragic playwrights, including...

...Francis Meres, who in his 1598 commonplace book Palladis Tamia (The Treasury of Wit) declared that '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' (certain...

...contemporary, also used Plautus and Seneca as the comparators for Shakespeare's greatness in his own time. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. Francis Meres, Palladis Tarn/a (1 598) The tragedies of Seneca, the first-century Roman dramatist,...

...dramatist; he had not yet written As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, or The Tempest. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins," Meres proclaims, "so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage."...

...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private 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,...