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Greene, Shakespeare, "Cony-Catching"
On this day in 1592 Robert Greene's A Groats-Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, in which appears the first printed reference to Shakespeare, was entered in the Stationers' Register. Greene's warning to his fellow playwrights of "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers" is interpreted as jealousy of Shakespeare's rising star, or even as a charge of plagiarism. |
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