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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 Atlantic Monthly - Page 109
1867
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Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power

Marilyn Randall - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 346 pages
...'repentance.' Here the accusation of fraudulent disguise is doubled with that of the imitative ape: 'there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our 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...
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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 180 pages
...fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 164 pages
...fellow playwrights, Greene warns both generally and specifically: . . . trust them [actors] not: for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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,...
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Shakespeare: For All Time

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...written in part, by another minor writer, Henry Chettle. The Groatsivorth includes the following passage: there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,...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,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...Shakespearean character and to Shakespeare's work as a playwright. In 1592 Robert Greene complained about 'an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that..."tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide", supposes that he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes...
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Internet-enabled Business Intelligence

William A. Giovinazzo - Business & Economics - 2003 - 356 pages
...crow of computer architectures. The term comes from a quote of Robert Greene about Shakespeare: "For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being...
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The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past ...

Paul Russell - Reference - 2002 - 414 pages
...playwright Robert Greene, who warns his friends of an actor who has had the audacity to write plays: "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a players hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being...
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Shakespeare's Serial History Plays

Nicholas Grene - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...a line from j Henry VI making unmistakable the identity of the specific actor/playwright attacked: there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the...
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Shakespeare, Co-author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays

Brian Vickers - Drama - 2004 - 608 pages
...of verse (or perhaps rhetorical 'colours'l that they have written for them: Yes trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players byde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the...
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Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life

Constance Brown Kuriyama - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 298 pages
...playwriting, generally believed to be Shakespeare, who was also stung by one of the author's comments: there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our 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...
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