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• W1554873642 abstract "I THE passage from Greene has had such a devastating effect on Shake-spearean study we cannot but wish it had never been written or never discovered. (1) It was, of course, the puzzling attack on the upstart Crow in Greenes Grows-worth of Witte and the ensuing endless debate that, more than eight decades ago, prompted this exasperated comment by the Scottish scholar J. S. Smart. Since then students have continued to pore over the bitterest and nearly the most famous lines ever written of (2) trying to make sense of them. (3) When it comes to interpreting the meaning of the elusive allusion in Groatsworth, commentators can be roughly divided into two camps. There are those who believe by calling Shakespeare vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers (4) Greene accuses him of plagiarism. Others think the attack is directed at the insolence of the uneducated actor who has the presumption of writing plays. Shakespeare is either charged with plagiarism or with social climbing. Although the plagiarism theory first presented by Malone, (5) and later taken up by Dover Wilson, (6) seemed to have been refuted by Peter Alexander, (7) it has again found favor among recent biographers. Peter Ackroyd writes: Accused of being an unlearend ('upstart') plagiarist, Shakespeare would have questioned 'unlearned' ... but he could hardly deny the charge of plagiarism; his early plays were bedecked with lines and echoes from Marlowe. (8) David Bevington also thinks that Greene seems to have despised Shakespeare as an unprincipled plagiarist. (9) Did Greene, who himself was a shameless pilferer of other writers' plots and phrases, (10) really accuse Shakespeare of plagiarism? Was plagiarism for early modem authors even a serious issue? One might doubt it. (11) Jonathan Bate is among those who believe Greene's attack was prompted by envy and his disdain for social climbing: culture has a long history of men from the professions, armed with degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, looking down their noses at hard-working men from a trade background who lack a degree (which in the Elizabethan age allowed you to call yourself a gentleman). Greene's Groatsworth of Wit goes on to call Shake-scene a 'rude groom' and 'a peasant'. This is the snobbery of the town sophisticate towards the country bumpkin as well as the professional towards the trader. (12) Although Greene took pride in his university degrees and may have considered himself more learned than the grammar school boy Shakespeare, the explanation offered by Bate is as unsatisfactory as the plagiarism theory. Greene's background (13)--his father was a saddler, or perhaps a cordwainer turned innkeeper in Norwich--was similar to the glover's son from Stratford. His traditionalist values are as rooted in the English counties as Shake-speare's. In A Quip for an Upstart Courtier he lets a jury give preference to Cloth Breeches over Velvet Breeches, to lowliness over pride, and in Friar Bacon and Friar Bun gay he lauds the sane country virtues of a humble gamekeeper and his daughter. There is as yet no wholly convincing explanation for the oblique and cryptic (14) attack on Shakespeare. Commentators tend to concentrate on the upstart Crow jibe and rather neglect the other charges in the passage. Why did Greene accuse Shakespeare of having a tyger's heart? And what about Greene's claim Shakespeare breing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the one!), Shake-scene in a countrey? Even the imaginative A. L. Rowse, who, it must be said, never allowed an absence of certainty to get in the way of a conclusion, (15) was baffled. He surmised there must have been something personal behind them, some acute disappointment, to account for the malice. But what was it? had happened between them? (16) What indeed. We don't know, but we can, once again, make an atttempt to to find out. …" @default.
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