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Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare.
A concise introduction to the tragic life of Robert Greene, one of the more interesting playwrights of the Elizabethan era. Includes a discussion of his famously controversial insult directed at William Shakespeare.
The Plays of Robert Greene. The early Elizabethan author Robert Greene was a popular pamphleteer and sometime-playwright, but he is most famous today for a gratuitous insult he directed at William Shakespeare shortly before he, Greene, died. Having lived a life of debauchery, Greene left this world penniless and friendless.
Robert Greene (born July 1558?, Norwich, Eng.—died Sept. 3, 1592, London) was one of the most popular English prose writers of the later 16th century and Shakespeare’s most successful predecessor in blank-verse romantic comedy. He was also one of the first professional writers and among the earliest English autobiographers.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 th Ed., vol. XII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 541. ROBERT GREENE (c.1560-1592), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Norwich about 1560. The identity of his father has been disputed, but there is every reason to believe that he belonged to the tradesmen's class and had small means.
Playwright Robert Greene was a man of sour temperament who, it is believed, deeply resented Shakespeare’s success. In a pamphlet - Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit bought with a million of Repentance - Greene refers to the Bard as ..
Although Robert Greene is perhaps most respected today for his contribution to English drama, it was as a writer of prose fiction that he was best known to his contemporaries. His novellas made...
