Note 25 — THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE
Reading edition
See Gayley, Representative English Comedies, p. 422. Opinion to-day seems strongly to favour the theory that it was Nash to whom Greene referred in the famous passage in A Groatsworth of Wit, and not Lodge. Considerations of age, of personal association, of the comparative gifts of satire of Nash and Lodge strengthen this view. Nash helped Marlowe in the composition of a tragedy; why not Greene in the composition of a comedy?