>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
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