Yeah, Rob, the dates are tight, but Chettle's apology (registered at the
Stationers 8 December 1592) certainly post-dates Greene as it says:
"About three months since died M Robert Greene, leaving many papers in
sundry booksellers' hands, among them his Groats-worth of wit, of which a
letter written to divers play-makers is offensively by one or two of them
taken ...."
Best
Dave
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: Poem/Play (was Re: Pinter on Blair et al.)
> >> 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
>
> The dates are tight, dave. Groatsworth was 1592, Chettle's "apology"
later
> in the same year. Kit was terminated with extreme prejudice via his left
> eyeball in 1593.
>
> I blame Walsingham myself, or do you know something I don't?
>
> There's a moral here. Basically, while they pay you drinking-money, there
> are consequences to financing your MA by moonlighting for the CIA (or the
> Elizabethan equivalent thereoff). As Kit discovered.
>
> Barry Blue put it succinctly in "Queen of Hearts" -- you pay at the gate.
>
> :-(
>
> R.
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