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Upstart Crow
by Terry A. Gray
Perhaps the most famous literary snarl ever was penned in 1592 by Robert Greene in his Groats-worth of Witte:
for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
The passage is famous because it clearly refers to William Shakespeare ("Shake-scene") and is the first documentary evidence we have of his rise to prominence in the London theater world, indeed the first direct documentary evidence regarding him at all since the baptism of the twins in 1585.
Punning References
to Robert Greene
in Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Roy Neil Graves
26 February 2005
Particularly insistent wordplays occur in sonnets 104 and 112, where phonic elements insinuate "R. Greene." These two wordstrings, in fact, stand as fruitful samples revealing latent wit: "Since first I saw you fresh which yet are greene" (104.8), e.g., allows such puns as "Scene see: sourest [f = ‘long s'] eye saw ewe fresh, witch white, R. Greene." And the query "So you ore-greene my bad, my good alow?" (112.4) suggests, e.g., "Sour R. Greene may be odd midget, aye low?" Read thus, both puns encode "sour" and denigrate Greene. Line 112.4 is immediately preceded by another question that seems relevant to Greene's personal attack: "For what care I who calles me well or ill?" Further, the run-on play at lines 68.11-12 links "...greene, / Rob...," while hard by, in line 70.4, hovers "A Crow that flies in heauens sweetest ayre."

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Selections from the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare 1616
opinion | 8-5-2005
Posted on 08/05/2005 12:29:59 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
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Experts plan to exhume Shakespeare's body
icBirmingham | Nov 1, 2005 | Name not given
Posted on 11/02/2005 7:30:05 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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Much ado about 'fake' Shakespeare portrait!
Hindustan Times | London, October 28, 2005 | The Press Trust of India
Posted on 10/28/2005 7:08:54 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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