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Title: Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cargill, Alexander
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: London : Constable and company ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ing weary of playing, thymoney may there bring thee to dignity and reputation. This sage advice Sh closely followed in due course. Elsewhere the volume says: My conceit is such of theethat I durst all the money in my purse on thy head to playHamlet.—William Jaggard, Shakespeare Bibliography,1911, p. 257. Meres (Francis). A comparative Discourse of our EnglishPoets (Painters and Musicians) with the Greek, Latin, andItalian Poets (Painters and Musicians).1 As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best forComedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeareamong the English is the most excellent in both kinds ofthe stage. For comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona;his (Comedy of) Errors; his Loves Labour9s Lost; hisLoves Labour 9s Won (Alls Well that Ends Well); hisMidsummer Nights Dream ; and his Merchant of Venice.For tragedy : his Richard II., Richard HI., Henry IV.,King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet. 1 Meres incorporated the Discourse in his Palladia Tamia (1598).
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H nw H0 g H E 0 a 05 h <4P 05H 8 * W ^ a I H S6 M §K g WB& o 050 H 05 M CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES 61 1 As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak withPlautuss tongue if they would speak Latin; so I say thatthe Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filedphrase, if they were to speak English. 1 As Ovid said of his work, Jamque opus exegi, quod nee Jo vis ira, nee ignis,Nee poterit ferrum, nee edax abolere vetustas ; 1 And as Horace saith of his, Exegi monumentum a ere perenniusRegalique situ pryamidum altius,Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotensPossit diruere, aut innumerabilisAnnorum series, et fuga temporum : 1 So I say, severally, of Sir Philip Sidneys, Spensers,Daniels, Draytons, Shakespeares, and Warnersworks, Non Jo vis ira : imbres : Mars : ferrum : flamma : senectus :Hoc opus unda : lues : turbo : venena ruent.Et quanquam ad pulcherrimum hoc opus evertendum, tres illi Dii con- spirabunt, Chronus, Vulcanus, et Pater ipse gentis.Non tamen annorum series, non flamma

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