© Gunnar Tómasson
25 April 2016
Prologue
Archetypal Robert Greene
(S. Schoenbaum)
With [Robert] Greene we cannot always separate fact from fiction in the fantasias he composed on autobiographical themes, or the legend made of him by his contemporaries. The pattern of his life – necessarily pieced together from the testimony of biased witnesses – assumes the lineaments of archetype.
[…]
[One] evening he over-indulged in Rhenish wine and pickled herrings, and this excess brought on his last illness. He was then lodged with his mistress, ‘a sorry ragged quean’, and their bastard in the house of a shoemaker of Dowgate, one Isam, and his wife. For a month Greene lingered in squalor, deserted by friends but attended by a troop of lice. Mrs. Isam gave him the penny-pot of malmsey he pitifully begged, while Gabriel Harvey exulted in the downfall of the wicked:
A rakehell, a makeshift, a scribbling fool:
A famous bayard in city, and school.
Now sick as a dog, and ever brainsick:
Where such a raving and desperate Dick?
Between prayers Greene scribbled his last confessions, and near the end wrote piteously to his cast-off Dorothea, asking her to forgive him and pay the ten pounds he owed his host. When he died, Mrs. Isam crowned him with a garland of bays, in accordance with his last wish. Before the year was out the bookstalls of St. Paul’s Churchyard displayed The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts and Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit, bought with a million of Repentance. Decribing the folly of youth, the falsehood of makeshift flatterers, the misery of the negligent, and mischiefs of deceiving Courtesans. Written before his death and published at his dying request.
Thus lived and died Robert Greene, the saddler’s son who would not willingly let the world forget that he was a Master of Arts. His progress furnishes a direct antithesis to that of the glover’s son from Stratford who never proceeded beyond grammar school. But Greene’s career holds more than an exemplary interest. In the Groatsworth of Wit he makes the first unmistakable reference we have to Shakespeare in London. […]
Yet the Groatsworth of Wit contains – no question – a desperate shaft directed at Shakespeare. The author hurls it later, after having abandoned any pretence at fiction; he speaks as Greene, offering, while life still beats, the bitter wisdom of experience. […] (William Shakespeare – A Compact Documentary Life, Oxford University Paperback, 1978, pp. 147-151)
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I. The First Heire of William Shakespeare’s Inuention
(Dedication, Venus and Adonis, 1593)
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9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE
20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,
8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.
21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend
23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,
25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing
25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,
17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,
13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,
18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,
23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.
23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,
15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:
12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,
16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,
17417 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,
18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,
27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,
17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.
11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,
9322 = William Shakespeare
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II. The First Heire Proues Deformed
(The Taming of the Shrew, First folio)
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18801 = Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly.
Begger
9104 = Ile pheeze you infaith.
Hostess
12766 = A paire of stockes you rogue.
Begger
13791 = Y’are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues.
10399 = Looke in the Chronicles,
17151 = we came in with Richard Conqueror:
24345 = therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa.
Hostess
23174 = You will not pay for the glasses you haue burst?
Begger
6178 = No, not a deniere.
19856 = go by S. Ieronimie, goe to thy cold bed, and warme thee.
Hostess
20982 = I know my remedie, I must go fetch the Head-borough.
Begger
25800 = Third, or fourth, or fift borough, Ile answere him by Law.
17155 = Ile not budge an inch boy. Let him come, and kindly.
5330 = Falles asleepe.
[…]
Lord
19654 = What’s heere? One dead? or drunke? See doth he breath?
- Huntsman
21131 = He breath’s my Lord. Were he not warm’d with Ale,
20169 = this were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
Lord
21474 = Oh monstrous beast, how like a swine he lyes.
20662 = Grim death, how foule and loathsome is thine image:
20135 = Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
The Lord’s Practice
1 = Monad
1000 = Light of the World
3563 = Nature
25920 = Platonic Great Year¹
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III. Robert Greene – Archetypal Man-Beast
(Shakespeare Myth)
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Holy Trinity Church, Stratford
19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST
22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST
24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME
20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE
20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT
21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT. = 129308
Greene’s Prayer
10388 = Lord have mercie upon mee
8671 = and send me grace to amend
7042 = and become a new man.
Prayer Answered
1 = Monad
3045 = Logos
57540 = Crucified Saviour² – Cosmic Creative Power
345 = Soul’s Material Frame – The Cross
10773 = Spiritus Sanctus
25920 = Platonic Great Year
216 = Soul’s Resurrection
4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power Exits
New Man in God’s Image
3394 = Jesus
Greene’s Repentance
11671 = GREENES, GROATS-WORTH
21731 = of witte, bought with a million of Repentance.
29168 = Describing the follie of youth, the falshood of make-shifte flatterers,
28707 = the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans.
26621 = Written before his death and published at his dyeing request.
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IV. Deformed First Heire and Shakespeare’s Grauer Labour
(Shakespeare Myth)
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Holy Trinity Church, Stratford
129308 = STAY PASSENGER etc. – III.
First “unmistakable reference
to Shakespeare in London”
10282 = Yes trust them not:
29160 = for there is an vp-start Crow, beautified with our feathers,
23774 = that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde,
25415 = supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse
7638 = as the best of you:
16349 = and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum,
25466 = is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
First Heire’s…
-4000 = Dark Sword/Speare
…Last Appearance – And then is heard no more
The Taming of the Shrew
13299 = The Presenters aboue speakes.
- Man
16937 = My Lord you nod, you do not minde the play.
Beggar
17001 = Yes by Saint Anne do I, a good matter surely:
10962 = Comes there any more of it?
Lady
9596 = My Lord, ‘tis but begun.
Beggar
19574 = ‘Tis a verie excellent peece of worke, Madame Ladie:
10016 = would ‘twere done.
7176 = They sit and marke. = 104561
William Shakespeare’s
Grauer Labour
(1609)
10588 = Shakespeares Sonnets
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V. Lighting Fooles the Way to Dusty Death
(Macbeth, Act V, Sc. v – First folio)
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Macbeth
12402 = Wherefore was that cry?
Seyton
9748 = The Queene (my Lord) is dead.
Macbeth
12050 = She should haue dy’de heereafter;
20111 = There would haue beene a time for such a word:
22689 = To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,
17099 = Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,
15476 = To the last Syllable of Recorded time:
17611 = And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles
10749 = The way to dusty death.
Lighting Deformed First Heire
The Way to Dusty Death
129308 = STAY PASSENGER etc. – III.
Plast With In This Monument
Shakespear
1000 = Light of the World
Last Syllable of Recorded Time
104561 = The presenters abour etc. – IV.
Dusty Death
-4951 = Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s
Grauer Labour
10588 = Shakespeares Sonnets
100 = The End
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VI. Out, out, breefe Candle – Brave New World
(Saga-Shakespeare Myth)
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9018 = Out, out, breefe Candle,
18629 = Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player,
23287 = That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,
13957 = And then is heard no more. It is a Tale
15789 = Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury
8516 = Signifying nothing.
Brave New World
The Tempest, Act V, Sc. i – First folio
19669 = Here Prospero discouers Ferdinand and Miranda,
7073 = playing at Chesse.
Miranda
12858 = Sweet Lord, you play me false.
Ferdinand
7931 = No my dearest love,
14214 = I would not for the world.
Miranda
21768 = Yes, for a score of Kingdomes, you should wrangle,
11923 = And I would call it faire play.
Alonso
6671 = If this proue
15270 = A vision of the Island, one deere Sonne
9649 = Shall I twice loose.
Sebastian
7638 = A most high miracle.
Ferdinand
19151 = Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull,
16209 = I have curs’d them without cause.
Alonso
10590 = Now all the blessings
13754 = Of a glad father, compasse thee about:
15310 = Arise, and say how thou cam’st heere.
Miranda
5061 = O wonder!
18309 = How many goodly creatures are there heere?
12357 = How beauteous mankinde is?
9650 = O brave new world
11213 = That has such people in’t.
Prospero
8277 = ‘Tis new to thee.
The Seventh Day
1 = Monad
3045 = LOGOS
1000 =Light of the World
360 = Devil‘s Circle
7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God‘s Image
3394 = JESUS
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¹ Symbolic measure of Seventh Day’s Duration; number of calendar years in which the equinoctial points complete a full circle around the Zodiac.
²16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Matt. 27:37
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – Mark 15:26
13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – Luke 23:38
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – John 19:19
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