...brother dramatists " an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." Mr. Chettle being called over the coals for this and some other pleasantries of the like nature in...

...the motives which he gives for so doing is the imprudence of trusting to the actors ; for, he says, " there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country."! These passages leave no doubt as to Shakspeare's having borrowed from Greene as early...

...brother dramatists " an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." Mr. Chettle being called over the coals for this and some other pleasantries of the like nature in...

...committed to the care of Henry Chettle, a brother dramatist ; and in this tract Shakspere ia denounced as " an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that...able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ;" for Greene is addressing himself to those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their...

...upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger 8 heart wrapped in a player s hide,1 supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country."2 These passages leave no doubt as to Shakspeare's having borrowed from Greene as early...

...so he holds that his friends will be forsaken. And chiefly for what reason 1 " Yes, trust them not : for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank-verse as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the...

...upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers heart, wrapped in a playeras ?¿ide í re countrey." (Dyce's Edit, of Greene's Works, I. Ixxxi.) In this extract, although Greene talks of "an...

...we find him sneered at by his contemporary, Robert Greene, in 1592, in the following terms : — " There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...his own conceit, the only shake-scene in a country." In 1593 then appeared, in all likelihood, the first composition which was wholly his. He died in 1616,...

...a pamphlet, as " an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." It is due alike to Chettle and to Shakspeare to add that, in a subsequent pamphlet, the former thus...

...the motives which he gives for so doing is the imprudence of trusting to the actors^ for, he says, V there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country."! These passages leave no doubt as to Shakspeare's having borrowed from Greene as early...