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100	1		_aChapman, William Hall, _d1845-
245	1	0	_aWilliam Shakspere and Robert Greene
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-15
508			_aAaron Adrignola, Chris Miceli, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"William Shakspere and Robert Greene : the evidence" by William Hall Chapman is a literary study written in the early 20th century. It reconsiders Elizabethan literary history and the Shakespeare canon by stripping away later traditions and conjectures, arguing from documents rather than “aesthetic” myth-making. Central to its case is the claim that Robert Greene’s famous “upstart crow” barb targeted the clown William Kemp, not Shakespeare, alongside a broader rehabilitation of Greene’s character and work. The study also probes the Elizabethan stage economy and questions familiar assumptions about Shakespeare’s life and authorship. The opening of the book lays out this revisionist aim, then closely examines Greene’s deathbed letter appended to “Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit,” arguing that “Shake-scene” meant a dance-scene and fits the celebrated clown-dancer William Kemp; it supports this with a compact (but vivid) dossier on Kemp’s career, notoriety, and improvisatory “jigs.” It reads “upstart crow” and “Tyger’s heart wrapt in a Player’s hide” within Elizabethan idiom, rejects Shakespearean authorship inferences from “bombast out a blanke verse,” and contends the line in Henry VI echoes Greene’s own phrasing. The text defends Greene against charges of envy and dissoluteness, praises his clean prose romances and democratic sympathies, doubts the authenticity of several posthumous pamphlets, and recasts Henry Chettle’s “Kind-Heart’s Dream” apology as aimed at Marlowe/Nashe/Peele rather than Shakespeare. It then begins a sober sketch of Shakespeare’s early life based on records—his father’s rise and decline, uncertain schooling, and a pressured, irregular marriage—underscoring how little firm evidence supports the standard biography. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cOakland, CA: Tribune Publishing Co., 1912
653			_aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Greene theory
653			_aGreene, Robert, 1558-1592 -- Authorship
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/williamshakspere00chaprich/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77063
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