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    Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (1592) is a tract published as the work of the Elizabethan author Robert Greene. It was...
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    Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of...
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  • Robert Greene used the phrase "absolute Johannes Factotum" (rather than "Jack of all trades") in his 1592 booklet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, to dismissively...
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  • Upstart Crow (category 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death)
    a critique of Shakespeare by his rival Robert Greene in the latter's Groats-Worth of Wit. The show is set from 1592 (the year of Greene's quotation) onwards...
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    "upstart crow" in the pamphlet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, published as the work of the recently-deceased Robert Greene, has led to the view that the...
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  • of Romeo and Juliet, to which it is suggested Chettle added lines and stage directions. In 1592 Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, supposedly the work of the...
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    John Falstaff (category Inmates of Fleet Prison)
    he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work (in Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced...
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  • The Upstart Crow (category Cultural depictions of William Shakespeare)
    Winter’s Tale the moment the dancing bear appears." Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit - 1592 pamphlet, source of the phrase "upstart crow" Gielgud Theatre website...
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    of you, and being an absolute Johannes factotum is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country From the moment Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit was...
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  • inspired volumes of commentary" similar to the conjecture over the "Upstart Crow" passage in Robert Greene's Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit. John Berryman...
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