Ben Jonson
Shakespeare's dramas were said to be not for the age but for all time. This was penned by Ben Johnson at his eulogy. The drama's would last longer then age of their creation, they would remain relevant in all times.
Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright.
he was not of an age ,he was for all time (said when shakespear was still alive)
Jonson said "He was not of an age but for all time."
We don't know exactly which play was Shakespeare's last, but in any case all of the plays have been played many many times in theatres all over the world.
Shakespeare's dramas were said to be not for the age but for all time. This was penned by Ben Johnson at his eulogy. The drama's would last longer then age of their creation, they would remain relevant in all times.
Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright.
he was not of an age ,he was for all time (said when shakespear was still alive)
Jonson said "He was not of an age but for all time."
These words are about Shakespeare, they are the words of Shakespeare's great friend and contemporary, Ben Jonson. The quotation comes from Jonson's poem, To the memory of my beloved, found in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works, published in 1623.
Basically, he meant that Shakespeare had something which would be relevant at any time, not just in the time he wrote it. Shakespeare was not "topical" most of the time. Jonson, on the other hand, filled his plays with references to people and ideas which were well-known when he was alive but nobody knows about now, which makes Jonson's plays quite dated and hard to follow compared with Shakespeare's.
William Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
All actors should be committed to their performance at all times, whether playing Shakespeare or anything else.
In the posthumous collection of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio of 1623, a number of people wrote letters and verses introducing the work and praising its author. One such set of verses was written by the very famous Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson who was a good friend of Shakespeare's. His poem is very well known and is frequently used to establish or corroborate facts about Shakespeare's life. The line you allude to reads, "He was not of an age, but for all time !" which is easily misquoted.
Mark Anthony in a play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
We don't know exactly which play was Shakespeare's last, but in any case all of the plays have been played many many times in theatres all over the world.
This specific line is actually said by Stephano, in Shakespeare's "Temptest", 1611 Shakespeare Tempest iii. ii. 126. A similar form of this line, however, is said, even earlier, in 1597, during Henry IV - (The End of All Life, Cancels all Bonds.) - 1597-8 Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 157.