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Updated: May 13, 2025
The fathers in English literature were not a little given to writing books which they called 'anatomies. Thomas Nash, for example, wrote an Anatomy of Absurdities, and Stubbes an Anatomy of Abuses. Greene, the novelist, entitled one of his romances Arbasto, the Anatomy of Fortune. The most famous book which bears a title of this kind is the Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton.
On the second page of Greene's Arbasto is this sentence: 'He did not so much as vouchsafe to give an eare to my parle, or an eye to my person. Greene learned this trick from Lyly, who was a master of the art.
In this curious work occurs his famous reference to Shakespeare as "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers." Among his other works may be mentioned Euphues' censure to Philautus, Pandosto, the Triumph of Time , from which Shakespeare borrowed the plot of The Winter's Tale, A Notable Discovery of Coosnage, Arbasto, King of Denmark, Penelope's Web, Menaphon , and Coney Catching.
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