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Robert Greene was an English writer and a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Greene referred to Shakespeare as an upstart crow in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592):
there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers that, 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; being an absolute Johannes Factotum, in his own conceit the only shake-scene in a country.
Source:
Stanley Well's Shakespeare: An Illustrated
Dictionary, Oxford University Press NY, c.1978. p. 62., R
822.3 W46
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