The Non-acceptance of the "Marlowe-Shakespeare Conspiracy"
led to a fatal interpretation failure of literary sources in the aftermath of "William of Stratford".-
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Epigram title (8) on an Upstart [crow]" refers to Greenes "Groatsworth of witte"(1592) somebody being characterized as a "...Factotum in his own conceit the only Shake-Scene in a countrie".
In his "Will" (1616) the Stratford man signed as William Shakspeare, Gent[leman]. The author refers to an old saying: "Clothes makes the man": Shakspere enhanced his social status (his pedigree) , he knows [wot, 1. SOED.s.fig. ] how to apply for a coat of arms [2.]. - In a wordplay, the author seems to reveal the situation by asking why he shakes hands [3.] with a rampant louse [Shakspere] he should chase off .
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I suppose it will be difficult to convince an educated reader that Epigram 8 has nothing to do with the Stratford-man and the historical Shakespeare Authorship Issue.!