The Pleasure Of Such Rude Groomes

      Today In Literature informs me that it is from this day in history to which we owe the first printed mention of a little-known playwright whose plays were merely trifles and his poems awkward accidents.

On this day in 1592 Robert Greene's "A Groats-Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance," in which appears the first printed reference to Shakespeare, was entered in the Stationers' Register. Greene's caution to his fellow playwrights that Shakespeare is "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers," is interpreted as jealousy of a rising star, or even a charge of plagiarism.

A little Greene with envy, perhaps? (Oh, and what a truly risible title.) You can check out a few bits from Greene here.