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Robert Greene (dramatist) 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. Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and ...
- 3 September 1592 (aged 34), London
- probable; 11 July 1558, St George's Church
- English
- probable; Tombland, Norwich
The Life of Robert Greene. Robert Greene was born in Norwich in about 1560 to parents of the tradesmen’s class. Educated at Cambridge, Greene travelled extensively on the continent, claiming to have lived a debauched and dissolute lifestyle throughout his youth. In fact, Greene’s life of degeneracy and waste seems to have been the primary ...
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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. Read more about ...
University Wits. 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
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. It is doubtful whether Robert Greene attended Norwich grammar school; but, as an eastern ...
Robert Greene 1558-1592. 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 “Shake-scene” and makes a bitter attack on him, as well as other playwrights of ...
Robert Greene was a contemporary of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. He lived during one of England’s most important literary periods—the English Renaissance. Greene was both an ...
