 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 2004 - 276 pages
...feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you : and being an absolute Johannes fac totum [Jack of all trades], is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country. i45l1 The short... | |
 | Erica Fudge - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 264 pages
...invasion of the London theater: "An upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapt in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you and being an absolute lohannes fac totum, is in his own... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Drama - 2004 - 350 pages
...Greene mocked Shakespeare as an 'upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tiger's heart wrapt in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you'. He is, Greene concludes, 'in his own conceit the only... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...feathers, that with his tigers heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. The passage mimics a line from 3 Henry VI (hence the... | |
 | Virginia M. Fellows - Fiction - 2006 - 383 pages
..."Greene-Bacon"* had intimated in Groatsworth of Wit, he had bragged that he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Fac Totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." Shaksper had come to London straight... | |
 | 100 pages
...feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." After Green's death, his editor, Henry Chettle, publicly... | |
 | Jerome Neu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 304 pages
...feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a country" [quoted in Greenblatt 2004, 213].) The following translation... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. This cut deep. Years later, Polonious says how " 'Beautified'... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...feathers, that with his Tiger s heart wrapt in a player s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country."5 The first italicized phrase parodies... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Fiction - 2007 - 356 pages
...feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes-factotum [ie, jack-of-all-trades] is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.... | |
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Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum,... 
