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| | The player-patron in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) |
 | | The Player is "famous for Delphrigus, and the King of Fairies," the same two roles Nashe mentions as staples of the struggling actors' repertory before the arrival of the poets. |
 | | Greene's method, for her, is that of "seaside photographers of the past [who] invited sitters to pose with their heads stuck through a cardboard cut-out."(18) Glimpses of individuals there may be, but there could hardly be more than a trace of Shakespeare visible in 1592. |
 | | Nothing of Munday's attack on the stage, his fame as a balladeer, as a pursuivant of religious extremists, or, apparently, unless "Delphrigus" is an indicator, as a translator of romances about wandering knights comes across in the account. |
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