...is a thought expressed not only by himself but also by Ben Jonson (1573?1637), who wrote: (280) Thou art... alive still, while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. 6. Authors in the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries Having thus exploited Shakespeare (and Jonson)...

...Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a Monument, without...tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live . . . In equally extravagant fashion, Jonson went on: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To...

...further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe, And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 1 D Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe,/ To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe,' remarks...

...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...alive still while thy book doth live, And we have w its to read, and praise to give . . . For if I thought my judgement were of years, I should commit...

...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...

...Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, h, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — 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...

...Shakespeare, rise! / will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further to 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,...

...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...great, but disproportioned muses: For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell, how thou didst our Lyly...

...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...