...read the opening of Sonnet 112 as a response to Robert Greene's well-known gibe against Shakespeare: 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...

...not; for there is an upstart Crow, beautilied with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to...as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum [Jack of all trades], is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country. i45l1 The short...

...always make the best judgements. After all, Shakespeare himself was called ‘an upstart crow' who ‘supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you' by a fellow playwright, Robert Grene. And some of the most respectable citizens in the country considered...

...biographies, discussed endlessly, and still retains its nearly impenetrable mystery. Yes, trust them not: for 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...

...biographies, discussed endlessly, and still retains its nearly impenetrable mystery. Yes, trust them not: for 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...

...biographies, discussed endlessly, and still retains its nearly impenetrable mystery. Yes, trust them not: for 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...

...in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, published after his death, warned his fellow dramatists to beware of 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...

...Greene's famous use of Aesop's fable of the crow to describe Shakespeare's invasion of the London theater: “An upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers,...blank verse as the best of you and being an absolute Johannesfac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in the country.” Here, Greene parodies...

...edited by Henry Chettle, who apparently enhanced the text he transcribed), Greene mocked Shakespeare as an 'upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that,...to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you'. He is, Greene concludes, 'in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country'/' Henslowe's records...

...crow beautiful with our feathers that, with his ‘tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide,' supposes is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; being an absolute Johannes Factotum, in his conceit the only shake-scene in a country. (Schoenbaum,...