oct 1, 1592 - Shakespeares First Review

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Shakespeare got his first review in 1592 and it was a stinker.
Playwright Robert Greene called Shakespeare an “upstart crow”. Basically he was accused of rising above his rank and trying his hand where previously only the university educated had worked. In 2016 Bourne director Paul Greengrass lamented the fact that young filmmakers were ‘screwed to the ground‘ unless they had wealthy families. Shakespeare had a similar social-economic scenario when he was breaking in. Elizabethan theatre was shifting to the secular from religious. New companies were formed, including Shakespeare’s Lord Chamberlain’s Men to entertain the public with secular drama. These companies were financed by wealthy patrons. Coming out of his so-called lost years it appears Shakespeare had written three parts of Henry VI and Richard III and had a review

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