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Updated: May 8, 2025
Poet-Ape is an actor-playwright "THAT WOULD BE THOUGHT OUR CHIEF" words which, by 1601, could only apply to Shakespeare; there was no rival, save Ben, near his throne. The playwright-actor, too, has now confessedly "grown To a little wealth and credit in the scene," of no other actor-playwright could this be said.
The applause and laughter that greeted the sally stocked the scout with confidence, but confidence is of no use if one has forgotten his part. It became manifest to the playwright-actor that he would have to prepare another play in place of the one he had expected to perform, and that he must prepare it on the spot. "Tell us about it, Bill," said he, and the prompter groaned.
Thus Ben expresses, in accordance with his humour on each occasion, most discrepant opinions of Will's works, but he never varies from his identification of Will with the author of the plays. The "works" of which Ben wrote so splenetically in Poet-Ape, were the works of a Playwright-Actor, who could be nobody but the actor Shakespeare, as far as Ben then knew.
We must take Greene's evidence as we find it, it proves that by "Shake- scene" he means a "poet-ape," a playwright-actor; for Greene, like Jonson, speaks of actors as "apes." Both men saw in a certain actor and dramatist a suspected rival. This proves that the actor from Stratford was accepted in Greene's world as an author of plays in blank verse.
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