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Elizabethan era game ball5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Greene was not worried about the vengeance of those he insulted. He had abandoned his wife and child to take up with a notorious bawd and brothel keeper. In his Groats-Worth of Wit, Greene called Shakespeare “an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers.” A mild insult by Greene’s standards for, as well as plays, Greene was a writer of scandalous books of scurrilous gossip and boasted of his own vile behavior. ![]() Greene insults Shakespeare’s lack of learning when compared to the University Wits like Greene, Marlowe and Nashe. Take Robert Greene, the author of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay among other plays, and the man whose place in history is assured by having been the first to mention Shakespeare as a playwright. At least, it seems likely judging by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Yet it seems likely that whatever happened in those seven lost years involved adventure and more than a little danger. Nothing is known about his life between the baptism of his twin children in February 1585 and his first appearance on the London theatre scene in 1592. Unfortunately for this version of Shakespeare’s story there is no evidence of the Queen’s Men being in or near Stratford Upon Avon in 1587, but then there is little that is certain about Shakespeare’s life.
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