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A pamphlet that contained a line referencing Shakespeare, which some interpret as a slight against him for attempting to write plays, while others interpret it as evidence of plagiarism.
So, one of those pieces of documentation early on in London is a pamphlet written by, generally believed to be written by this guy named Robert Greene. It's called Greene's Grotesworth of Wit.
— Episode: Did Shakespeare really write all that st...
Episode: Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?
A pamphlet that contained a line referencing Shakespeare, which some interpret as a slight against him for attempting to write plays, while others interpret it as evidence of plagiarism.
So, one of those pieces of documentation early on in London is a pamphlet written by, generally believed to be written by this guy named Robert Greene. It's called Greene's Grotesworth of Wit.
And there's a line where he references Shakespeare in it in a contemporaneous fashion. Where he kind of takes a shot at him. He says, it talks about Shakespeare, it says, there's an upstart crow in his own conceit, the only Shakespearean in a country, which kind of translates into he kind of thinks he's the only Shakespeare.