Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe

theconversation.com: London, September 1592. Robert Greene, a popular writer of romances, plays, and pamphlets – with an apparent predilection for pickled herring and Rhenish wine in prodigal excess – has died. Three pamphlets are published soon afterwards, each purporting to be Greene’s autobiographical deathbed repentance.