What Elizabethan writer called William Shakespeare an upstart crow?

We know that by 1592 he had become an actor and a playwright, because in that year a rival playwright, Robert Green, scathingly warned other playwrights about the actor who had become a writer,...

Robert Greene said this. Most of the playwrights of the day, such as Kyd, Marlowe, and Greene himself, were University men. Shakespeare, on the other hand, had only a grammar school education, which...

His name was John Shakespeare. What nicknames he was known by, we don't know.

Joan and Anne. He had two sisters called Joan and Catherine who died in infancy.

anne hathaway