Who Called Shakespeare ‘Upstart Crow’? Our Study Points to His Co-Author, Thomas Nashe

Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe

Left: A polemical woodcut deriding Nashe as jailbird (1597). Right: A copper engraving of Shakespeare from the title page of the First Folio (1623). Folger Shakespeare Library (left) and Yale Beinecke Library (right).London, September 1592. Robert Greene, a popular writer of romances, plays, and pamphlets – with an apparent predilection for pickled herring and Rhenish wine in prodigal excess – has died. Three pamphlets are published soon afterwa…

What Is The Truth Behind "Upstart Crow" - One Of The Most Famous Insults Aimed At Shakespeare? - Ancient Pages

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has introduced new perspectives on the origins of a well-known insult directed at William Shakespeare, suggesting that it may have originated from one of his friends. The term "upstart crow" has traditionally been considered the first literary jab at Shakespeare's burgeoning fame, appearing in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, […]