The Debate Between Pride and Lowliness (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Debate Between Pride and Lowliness The most remarkable circumstance about the ensuing poem is, that Robert Greene, the celebrated dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer, one of the predecessors of Shakespeare, stole the whole substance of it, and, putting it into prose, published it in 1592, in his own name, and as his own work, under the title of "A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, or a quaint Dispute between Velvet-breeches and Cloth-breeches." In his dedication to Thomas Barnabie, Esq. Greene says not one word of any obligation to a preceding writer. This fact presents Greene´s character in a new light, and affords ground for suspecting, if not for believing, that it was not the only time he had offended in this way. It is known, indeed, that he frequently resorted to foreign sources, particularly to the Italian novelists; but, until recently, it was not supposed that he appropriated to himself the work of any native author. He is the poet who, in his "Groatsworth of Wit," 1592, sneered at our great dramatist, as "the only Shake-scene in a country," and called him "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." (Dyee´s Greene´s Works, i., lxxxi.) This certainly did not come with a good grace from Greene, especially after having in the very same year plucked all the "feathers" out of "The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines," in order to "beautify" one of his own compositions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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