Project Gutenberg 2025-10-15 Public domain in the USA. 242 Chapman, William Hall 1845 Chapman, William H. (William Hall) 12005395 William Shakspere and Robert Greene : $b the evidence $aOakland, CA :$bTribune Publishing Co., $c1912. Aaron 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.) "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.) https://archive.org/details/williamshakspere00chaprich/page/n5/mode/2up 20230316040018chapman 1912 US en Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Greene theory Greene, Robert, 1558-1592 -- Authorship PR Text 258455 2025-11-30T10:30:23.483089 text/html 220911 2025-10-15T08:54:59 text/html 384165 2025-11-30T10:30:28.787070 application/epub+zip 383322 2025-11-30T10:30:25.007047 application/epub+zip 262228 2025-11-30T10:30:24.114057 application/epub+zip 938231 2025-11-30T10:30:31.766010 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 899773 2025-11-30T10:30:28.147049 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 202135 2025-11-30T10:30:22.981064 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 182121 2025-10-15T08:54:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15831 2025-11-30T10:30:31.916018 application/rdf+xml 11715 2025-11-30T10:30:24.374060 image/jpeg 1579 2025-11-30T10:30:24.240066 image/jpeg 901438 2025-11-30T10:30:23.516100 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog