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{{retitle|''A Groatsworth of Wit''}} | {{retitle|''A Groatsworth of Wit''}} | ||
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'''''A Groatsworth of Wit''''' was a pamphlet written in [[1592]] by | {{you may|A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|n1=the comic story of the same name}} | ||
'''''A Groatsworth of Wit''''' was a pamphlet written in [[1592]] by [[playwright]] and [[poet]] [[Robert Greene]] on his [[death]]bed. | |||
According to the [[Shadey]] [[Bloodfinger]], it was a "heartfelt repentance" for his [[life]] lived. However, Greene was "swollen with conceit and self-opinion" and [[Woodscrape]] noted he was a "faker" who was "full of [[spite]] and [[envy]]", with it being his [[hatred]] for rival [[William Shakespeare]] which was truly keeping him alive. Although [[history]] recorded that Greene died filled up with these negative [[emotion]]s, after choosing to save the [[world]] by banishing the Shadeys back to their own [[dimension]], his true final thoughts were of being remembered by the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] as "bigger than Shakespeare". | |||
By the [[21st century]], Greene was largely forgotten as a playwright, being best known for his writings about Shakespeare in ''A Groatsworth of Wit''. According to an employee of [[Books Unltd]], the pamphlet "gave a big clue to the dating of the early stuff" because Greene quoted from "[[Henry VI, Part 3|one of the Henrys]]" and was known to have died in 1592. This staff member gave Greene's pamphlet even more credit than this, stating it "was [[luck]]y he wrote about the Bard, or we'd never have heard of him". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'') | |||
{{quote|...there is an upstart [[crow]], beautified with our [[feather]]s, that, with his Tygers [[heart]] wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit, the onely [[William Shakespeare|Shake-scene]] in a [[Country|countrie]]...|An extract from ''A Groatsworth of Wit''|A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)}} | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
Although it is not made explicit, the [[play]] which [[Robert Greene]] quotes from is ''[[Henry VI, Part 3]]''. The line in question, "''Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hyde''", alludes to the line "O [[tiger]]'s heart wrapped in a [[woman]]'s hide" and does appear in the comic story ''[[A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)|A Groatsworth of Wit]]'', but is not specifically identified. | |||
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