ANOTHER ROUND OF DRINKS WITH BOB PRECHTER AT THE BLUE BOAR TAVERN EXPLORING ROBERT GREENE
“[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our 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.”
Greenes Groatsworth of Witte by Robert Greene, 1592
Robert Greene was reported to have died in 1592, the year before William Shakespeare published his first work, Venus and Adonis. Traditional Stratfordians have long credited Greene with not only making the first reference to “Shakespeare’s” appearance on a London stage in his Groatsworth of Witte, but with also being both source and model for the Bard’s works to come.
So little is known about Robert Greene, and what “facts” exist about him are so contradictory (and often so hilarious), that the cast of The Blue Boar Tavern invited Bob Prechter to return on July 10, 2024 at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific to drink a little deeper in the flagon of Rhenish wine of which Greene was so fond.
Join us on a pub-crawl through Greene’s favorite haunts and passages, including the famous one above, and as we explore how the enigmatic and rowdy pamphleteer fits into the continuum of early modern writers, including John Lyly and others, that culminated in the creation of “William Shakespeare”.
Ubers are on us!
