...reminding us that Shakespeare (like his ancient predecessors) will remain "alive still, while [his] Book doth live, and we have wits to read [!], and praise to give." For, as Jonson famously observed, "He was not of an age, but for all time!" 14 Anthony Burgess expresses...

...kind of precedence and authority: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise: I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or hid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument without a tomb. And art...

...the need. I, therefore, will begin. Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage. alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,...— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. Tint I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd Muses; For if...

...'Sweet swan of Avon!' Jonson had read Basse's poem, and takes issue with it: My Shakespeare, rise! / will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid...make thee a room. Thou art a monument without a tomb. We don't know when the Folio was first planned, but my guess is that Shakespeare discussed it with...

...bid Beaumont lie A little futthet, to make thee a toom; Thou att a monument without a tomb, And att alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to tead, and pmise to give. That 1 not mix thee so, my bmin excuses: l mean with gteat, but disptopottioned,...

...instead for 'authenticity' he chooses 'self-preservation' ahead of adaptation.59 Hamletism and humanism Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive...doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.60 With its talk of tombs and monuments, being and non-being, the question of literary succession...

...delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spencer, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And an alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not...

...bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And an alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses; I mean with great, but disproportioned muses: For, if I thought...

...them. "Thou art a Moniment without a tomb," Ben Jonson wrote, "And are alive still, while thy booke doth live,/ And we have wits to read, and praise to give" ("To the Memory of ... William Shakespeare"). Milton's Shakespeare needed no "piled stones" or "Star-ypointing...

...Chaucer, Spenser and Beaumont in the Abbey. His monument is his book. This book. The Folio itself: My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer,...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. William Shakespeare of Stratford, an actor who lacked a university education, and Ben Jonson of London,...