...as it were, to spare Shakespeare the implication that his greatness could proceed from Nature alone: Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line,...

...art'.8 In contrast, Jonson's elegy goes out of its way to emphasize Shakespeare as reviser and improver: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle...matter, nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...

...the same poem 'small Latin and less Greek', he adds to his gift of nature the accomplishments of art: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. In Jonson's 1619 conversation with William Drummond of Hawthornden, he put his viewpoint much less...

...w;tty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted le, As they were not of Nature's family. ML*"' } gen*lew°me" Bending on Hero. MESSENGERS,...I. Before LEONATO' s house. Enter LEONATO, HERO, an that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine are, — and strike the second...

...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art, My gentle...matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...

...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiauated, and deserted lie As they were not ofnature'sfamily. Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy apart. For though the poet's matter, naturebe, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts...

...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And that he Who calls to write a living line,...

..."nature's family" through vivid language and dramatize his material in carefully crafted works of art: "For though the poet's matter Nature be,/ His Art doth give the fashion." Jonson was thinking not only of the extraordinary range of characters in Shakespeare's comedies and...

...Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines — 'Yet I must not give Nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare,...part, For though the poet's matter nature be, His art does give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, . . . For a good...

...witty Plautus, now notplease, But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. [...] Und das vielzitierte Fazit: He was not of an age, but for all time! (Ben Jonson: The Complete...