> Greene later apologised (or someone apologised for him). Don't remember
the
> details off-hand but I'm sure it's googleable.
>
> R.
Greene would have had difficulty apologising later, Rob, unless via the
spirits, as he was dead. It was his +publisher+ who made an apology, to, it
is believed, Marlowe, with whom he wanted to have nothing to do, and
Shakespeare, whom he praises for his gentle and civil ways (which can of
course be read as meaning WS had favour from da hoods at the top of that
appaling horror that was Elizabethan society, whereas Marley (who was soon
to discover for himself) was soon to lose protection.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Poem/Play (was Re: Pinter on Blair et al.)
> > >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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