. William Shakespere : a biography. uQuoque, and bears his portrait in the title-page. This comedy, which longcontinued to be popular, was w-ritten by John Cook. Although the title-pageof this play states that it hath been divers times acted by the Queens Majestysservants, it is probable that Greene did not long continue a member of thecompany to which Shakspere belonged. He is mentioned by name in the Tu Quoque as the clown at the Red Bull. His name does not appear in apetition to the Privy Council from the Blackfriars company in 1596; and he isnot included in the list of the names of the pri
. William Shakespere : a biography. uQuoque, and bears his portrait in the title-page. This comedy, which longcontinued to be popular, was w-ritten by John Cook. Although the title-pageof this play states that it hath been divers times acted by the Queens Majestysservants, it is probable that Greene did not long continue a member of thecompany to which Shakspere belonged. He is mentioned by name in the Tu Quoque as the clown at the Red Bull. His name does not appear in apetition to the Privy Council from the Blackfriars company in 1596; and he isnot included in the list of the names of the principal actors of all Shak-speres plays, which is prefixed to the folio of 1623. Greene, as well as othersof higher eminence, was a poet as well as an actor. In the lines which havebeen ascribed to him upon somewhat doubtful authority, lie is made to say— I prattled poeay in my nurses his ambition was not powerful enough to induce him to claim the honours • riiilipots additions to Camdens Remains concerning Critaiu. SOS. [Thomas Greene.] of a poet till a very ripened age ; for upon the accession of James I. he ad-dressed to the king A Poets Vision, and a Princes Glory, in which he isthus spoken to in the vision :— What though the world saw never line of thine,Neer can the muse have a birth more divine. Robert Wilson, the fifth on the list, was a person of great celebrity. Hewas amongst the first of the Queens sworn servants in 1583. His reputationwas long enduring as an actor in a very peculiar vein. Howes describes him asof a quick, delicate, refined, extemporal wit. This was a traditional reputa-tion. But Meres, writing in 1598, after mentioning Antipater Sidonius as famous for extemporal verse in Greek, and alluding to a similar power inTarleton, adds— And so is now our witty. Wilson, who for learning and ex-temporal wit, in this faculty is without compare or compeer, as to his great andeternal commendations he manifested in his challenge at the Swan on the B
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