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- Ninth Doctor comic " A Groatsworth of Wit " ( also written by Gareth Roberts ).
- He concluded that " Groatsworth " was written by Chettle on the basis of word choice frequencies.
- The theory that " Greene's Groatsworth " is a forgery by Chettle has been both supported and challenged by scholars.
- Greenblatt has also suggested that a line in " Hamlet " is a dig at Greene's phrase in " Groatsworth ", " beautified with our feathers ".
- Entred for his copie under Mr Watkin s hand, uppon the perill of Henrye Chettle, a booke intituled " Greene s Groatsworth of wyt, bought with a million of Repentance " . . . vjd
- Some scholars have hypothesized that all or part of " Groatsworth " was written shortly after Greene's death by one of his fellow writers ( Henry Chettle being the favoured candidate ), hoping to capitalise on a lurid tale of death-bed repentance.
- Hanspeter Born argues that Greene wrote the whole of " Groatsworth ", and that his deathbed attack on the " upstart Crow " was provoked by Shakespeare's interference with a play attributed to Greene, " A Knack to Know a Knave ".
- Steve Mentz, writing in 2008, argued that " Groatsworth " included a substantial amount of material written by Greene, but that its idiosyncratic structure suggested that there was significant editorial intervention in the source material creating " an unusual sort of collaboration " between Chettle and Greene.
- According to " The Repentance of Robert Greene ", Greene is alleged to have written " Groatsworth " during the month prior to his death, including in it a letter to his wife asking her to forgive him and stating that he was sending their son to her.
- Greene complains of an actor who thinks he can write as well as university-educated playwrights, he alludes to a line in Shakespeare's " Henry VI, Part 3 ", and he uses the term " Shake-scene, " a term never used prior to " Groatsworth ".
- About three months since died M . Robert Greene, leaving many papers in sundry booksellers'hands, among other his Groatsworth of Wit, in which a letter written to divers play-makers is offensively by one or two of them taken, and because on the dead they cannot be avenged, they willfully forge in their conceits a living author [ . . . ] With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be.