...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...

...age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage. My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by seen, The happiest youth, — viewing his progress...— 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...

...Jonson had read Basse's poem, and takes issue with it: My Shakespeare, rise! / will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little...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...

...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...

...His monument is his book. This book. The Folio itself: My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little...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,...

...sang his rival's praises. After all, he knew the man and saw his plays when they were first performed: Thou art a Monument without a tomb And art alive still,...live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. Afterword On the Publication and Performance of the Play<* Especially in the last century, scholars...

...when he died, no eulogies from his contemporaries in London or in Stratford. Jonson's ode also says Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy Book doth live. Enigmatic? Not to one who knows the cipher story, particularly since there was a very visible physical...