...with his Tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute lohannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country."4 While neither Marlowe nor Shakespeare is specifically...

...theological theater) corresponds to the social progress by which this "upstart" from the provinces now "supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you." The puppet or performing object thus serves as a figure both for theatrical authorship as Greene envisions...

...Anticks gamisht in our colours." Greene sneers that this "upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers.. .supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best" of the real poets. Why should we suppose Greene's reworking of lines from 2 Henry VI, and pun on a line...

...garnisht in our colours." Greene sneers that this "upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers...supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best" of the real poets. Why should we suppose Greene's reworking of lines from 2 Henry VI, and pun on a line...

...(9-13) - a parallel to the complaint of Robert Greene, who signed himself "MA and Gent.," against "an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with...blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute lohannesfac Mum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie."34 Even if we can derive...

...with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute lohannes fac totum [Jack-of-all-trades], is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in the country.21 Appearing not later...

...for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tylers heart wrapt in ft players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast...blanke verse as the best of you ; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie." Greene's reference...

...feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an...totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in the countrey.8 Word of the playwrights' displeasure soon reached Henry Chetile, the minor author and...

...Greene's indignation is at the presumption of an actor writing plays, at Shakespeare's pretensions to be 'as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you', 'you' being (most likely) Marlowe, Peele, Nashe, university-educated authors like Greene himself. But...

...feathers. that with his Tygers hart wrap1 in a Players bytle. sopposes he is as well able to hombust out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absointe ltthaanexftic toturn. is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey. - a brutish...