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Q: Who called Shakespeare a 'Johannes Factotum', a Jack-of-all Trades?
  • A. Christophere Marlowe
  • B. Robert Greene
  • C. William Wordsworth
  • D. William Wordsworth
Correct Answer: Option B - Robert Greene- Called Shakespeare a 'Johannes factotum', (a jack-of-all Trades). In the pamphlet 'Groats-worth of Witte' Robert Greene attacks William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow". He also criticised Shakespeare as an absolute Johannes factotum in the same pamphlet. Robert Greene was one of the university wits - a member of the Cambridge/Oxford trained literary scholars of the era along with Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh.
B. Robert Greene- Called Shakespeare a 'Johannes factotum', (a jack-of-all Trades). In the pamphlet 'Groats-worth of Witte' Robert Greene attacks William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow". He also criticised Shakespeare as an absolute Johannes factotum in the same pamphlet. Robert Greene was one of the university wits - a member of the Cambridge/Oxford trained literary scholars of the era along with Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh.

Explanations:

Robert Greene- Called Shakespeare a 'Johannes factotum', (a jack-of-all Trades). In the pamphlet 'Groats-worth of Witte' Robert Greene attacks William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow". He also criticised Shakespeare as an absolute Johannes factotum in the same pamphlet. Robert Greene was one of the university wits - a member of the Cambridge/Oxford trained literary scholars of the era along with Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh.