Groatsworth

I am glad to say that Roberts 'other efforts at this period (DWM comic strip "A Groatsworth of Wit" and TV story "The Shakespeare Code") are much more successful.

July Books 24) The Plotters, by Gareth Roberts nwhyte 2009

Two of the other three stories, "The Love Attack" and "A Groatsworth of Wit", are by Gareth Roberts, and both are alien invasions of London at different times in the past - the 1960s and the 1590s, with the Doctor thwarting alien plots to change history (either by altering the score of the 1966 World Cup final and or by killing Shakespeare).

October Books 8) The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics nwhyte 2008

Groatsworth of Wit_, after his Death, containing these Words;

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Greene's _Groatsworth of Wit_, or any other rare book of Elizabeth's time, the Bishop's thoughts fly toward the setting sun.

The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

A few months after the publication of Greene's _A Groatsworth of Wit_,

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Greene's attack in 1592 in _A Groatsworth of Wit_ and

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Groatsworth of Wit_, in the introduction to which he makes his well-known attack upon Shakespeare, the adventures of Roberto, the protagonist of the story, tally approximately with known circumstances of Greene's life.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Shortly afterwards Henry Chettle published Greene's _Groatsworth of Wit_, which was his last literary effort, and appended a farewell letter of Greene's addressed "To those gentlemen, his quandam acquaintances, that spend their time in making plays, R.G. wisheth a better exercise and wisdom to prevent his extremities."

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

These lines evince Chapman's knowledge of Nashe's phrase "idiot art-master," and of Greene's "upstart crow beautified with our feathers," and clearly pertain to the play in its earlier form (1593) when Greene's _Groatsworth of Wit_ (published late in 1592) was still a new publication.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

"Let us, however, examine some of these allusions to Shakspere, real or supposed," says the critic. {138a} He begins with the hackneyed words of the dying man of letters, Robert Greene, in A Groatsworth of

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878