Brett Greatley-Hirsch

(He / him)

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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).

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

Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University of Leeds; Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, and Rachel White, Durham University

Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.

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