Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit
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Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance is a tract published as the work of the Elizabethan author Robert Greene.
The three university-educated playwrights addressed by Greene were all notorious for their disreputable lifestyles: a polemical woodcut deriding Thomas Nashe as a jailbird in chains, from Richard Lichfield's The Trimming of Thomas Nashe, Gentleman (1597).
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's
Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit
…actual persons are being represented and satirised by the characters in the story. The pamphlet is most famous for a passage which appears to allude to William Shakespeare, who was then starting out on his career as an actor and playwright. The main body of the text is an account of the visit of two brothers, Roberto and…
The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare, c. 1611
John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name.
Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon