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Shakespeare: The Upstart Magpie …

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there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide , supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Iohannes factotum , is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie. [a]

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Boar's Head, EastcheapPosted on January 22, 2019January 22, 2019Categories Christopher Marlowe, David and Ben Crystal, Henry VI Part 1, Richard II, Robert Greene, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sources, Tennyson, The Winter's Tale, William ShakespeareTags Edgar Allan Poe, Holinshed, Intertextuality, Jonathan Bate, Kevin Bacon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William MacNeile Dixon4 Comments on Shakespeare: The Upstart Magpie …

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