> >didn't Green attack WS during his lifetime for
>> being an uneducated upstart, a crow with borrowed feathers or somesuch?
>
> Greene (then dying) warned his fellows against an 'upstart crow who has
> beautified himself with our feathers' possessing a 'Tyger's hart wrapped
> in
> a Player's hide' (adapting a line from HVI) who 'in his own conceit'
> considers himself the 'only Shake-scene in the country'.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
1 Henry Sixth, I think -- the line is applied there to Margaret of Anjou who
has just indulged in one of her favourite pastimes, killing or having killed
some (relative) innocent.
Greene later apologised (or someone apologised for him). Don't remember the
details off-hand but I'm sure it's googleable.
R.
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