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and you need to find a new tune. There is no hard proof, and even
if there were I doubt you'd accept it.Check this out. It's one of the key pieces of independent
witness to the author of the plays, Greene's "For there is an
upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his
'Tiger's heart wrapped in player's hide' supposes he is as well
able to bombast out a blank verses the best of you, and being an
absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-
scene in a country."Doesn't it say that this "Shake-scene" person is a phoney (beautified
with our feathers,"); it's only in his own "conceit," a word with
many connotations, including "comparison," that he (jack of all
trades)proclaims that he is the ONLY Shake-scene. (Implied: he's wrong,
there's another.)You have to agree that's one possible reading of this text. The
way it was revealed, too, as a death-bed lunge, suggests the
exposure of a secret, a scandal.Evidence?
Posted by Professor Mike on April 19, 1997 at 21:56:28
In Reply to "More narcissism." posted by Reality Chuck on April 18, 1997 at 09:46:29
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