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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 ...
Mar 8, 2024 · 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.
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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 ...
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 Robert Greene here. The Complete Annotated Plays of… Continue Reading The Plays ...
Jun 23, 2015 · In 1592, the writer and critic Robert Greene accused the budding playwright William Shakespeare of plagiarism, and this stung the Bard deeply. Joe Loewenstein, professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities and the Humanities Digital Workshop, shares Shakespeares initial response to the criticism and explains how, even decades later, the Bard was still ...
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by Robert Greene. Widely regarded as Greene's best and most significant play, it has received more critical attention than any other of Greene's dramas. [1]
