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" Yes, trust them not, for 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; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum,... "
The Dramatic Works and Poems
by William Shakespeare - 1847
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1888 - 614 pages
...Wit, by Bobert Greene, and it contains the following passage : ' Yes, trust them not [the players] ; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country.' The above expressions apparently gave offence, for not long afterwards there was published by Honry...
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William Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself: A Revelation of the Poet in the ...

Robert Waters - 1888 - 362 pages
...Yes, trust them not," says he ; " for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, who, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide,...Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in the country." The expression " with a tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide " is a parody of the...
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Lives of English Authors: A Biographical History of English Literature

Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...arch-offender, and poured on him reproaches and abuse. " There is," he wrote, " an upstart crow, beautified in our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped...his own conceit, the only Shakescene in a country." The clumsy play on Shakespeare's name is a certain mark of identification; but there is another mark...
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Biographical Dictionary

Thompson Cooper - Biography - 1890 - 736 pages
...brother dramatists ' an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country/ Chettle, being called over the coals for this and some other pleasantries of the like nature in the...
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Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: .. . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns borh generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 132 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. seems to say that "Shake-scene" is both actor and playwright, a jack-of-all-trades. That same year,...
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The Narrative Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1999 - 212 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 164 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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The Tempest

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 132 pages
...his fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our...his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the play must have been performed before Greene wrote)...
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