Robert Greene — a remark

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“For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you.”

A sharp denunciation of literary borrowing and theatrical ambition, traditionally understood as an attack on Shakespeare. · Groats-Worth of Wit

About Robert Greene

Robert Greene

c. 11 July 1558–3 September 1592

In the swirling mists of Elizabethan England, where the stage was set for literary giants and the printing press hummed with new voices, Robert Greene emerged as one of the most fascinating and contradictory figures of his age. Born around 1560 and dead by 1592 at the tender age of thirty-two, Greene packed into his…

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