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Greene, Robert - 1558?–1592, English author. His short romances, written in the manner of Lyly's Euphues, include Pandosto (1588), from which Shakespeare drew the plot for A Winter's Tale, and Menaphon (1589). His best plays, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1594) and The Scottish History of James IV (1598), are a potpourri of romance, fantasy, and history. He wrote numerous tracts and

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Robert Greene (1915) » Read Now
by John Clark Jordan. 231 pgs.

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...AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ROBERT GREENE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS SALES...HUMPHREY MILFORD AMEN CORNER, E.C. ROBERT GREENE BY JOHN CLARK JORDAN, PH...Executive Officer...
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The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, Vol. 1 (Includes "Alphonsus King of Arragon," "A Looking Glasse," and "Orlando Furioso") » Read Now
by Robert Greene, J. Churton Collins. 322 pgs.

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The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, Vol. 2 (Includes "Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay," "The Pinner of Wakefield," and "A Maidens Dreame") » Read Now
by Robert Greene, J. Churton Collins. 418 pgs.

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...THE PLAYS POEMS OF ROBERT GREENE EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND...Palatine his Servants. Made by Robert Greene , Master of Arts. LONDON...Maiesties Servants. Made by Robert...
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Homosociality, Imitation and Gendered Reading in Robert Greene's Ciceronis Amor, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now
by Kevin L. Gustafson. 23 pgs.

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Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England (Chap. 5 "'He Who Cannot Dissemble, Cannot Live': Robert Greene's Romances" and Chap. 6 "'I May Terme My Selfe a Writer': Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry") » Read Now
by Derek B. Alwes. 197 pgs.

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"This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors-John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene-in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England ""poetry"" (in Sidney's"
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Elizabethan Plays and Players (Chap. V "Greene Turns Playwright" and Chap. VI "The Death of Greene") » Read Now
by G. B. Harrison. 306 pgs.

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...the one outstanding figure was Robert Greene. Chapter IV NEW DRAMATISTS...dealt hardly with the memory of Robert Greene. He had many faults; above all...to The Plays and...
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Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England (Chap. One "'Growne So Ordinarie': Producing Robert Greene's Pandosto and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, 1585-92") » Read Now
by Lori Humphrey Newcomb. 332 pgs.

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With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside elite literature, a parallel popular literature...
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With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside elite literature, a parallel popular literature. Lori Humphrey Newcomb examines the proliferation of romances in early modern England, as well as their vilification by elite writers. Using as her case study Robert Greene's Pandosto (1585), an Elizabethan prose romance that inspired Shakespeare's late play, The Winter's Tale, she shows that the two forms of literature influenced each other profoundly. Because Shakespeare's works are considered timeless literary achievements, critics have distanced his plays from his romantic sources -- a separation that until now has gone unquestioned. Newcomb undermines this assumption, providing a fascinating account of an early bestseller's incarnations over 250 years of literary history.
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Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose ("The Romance of Service: The Simple History of Pandosto's Servant Readers" begins on p. 117) » Read Now
by Constance C. Relihan. 274 pgs.

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Elizabethan fiction has profited from the newer modes of critical inquiry. Such texts as George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J., John Lyly's Euphues, George Pettie's A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure, or Nicholas Breton's The Miseries of Mavilla have often been seen as the work of...
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Elizabethan fiction has profited from the newer modes of critical inquiry. Such texts as George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J., John Lyly's Euphues, George Pettie's A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure, or Nicholas Breton's The Miseries of Mavilla have often been seen as the work of "hack" writers, inelegant aberrations that demonstrated little about the culture of 16th-century Britain or the development of English fiction. This collection of original essays draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches, especially those influenced by various elements of feminism, Marxism, and cultural studies. They illuminate the richness of canonical examples of Elizabethan fiction (Sidney's Arcadia) and less widely read works (Henry Chettle's Piers Plainess).
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Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (Chap. 8 "Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: The Commonwealth of the Present Moment") » Read Now
by Kent Cartwright. 321 pgs.

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English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be...
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English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be reconsidered. He proposes that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other.
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Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England (Chap. Six "Omne Tulit Punctum Qui Miscuit Vtile Dulci: Robert Greene's Fiction of Wonder") » Read Now
by Arthur F. Kinney. 529 pgs.

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The History of the English Novel (1929) (Chap. VI "Euphuism and Arcadianism - Robert Greene") » Read Now
by Ernest A. Baker. 306 pgs.

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...VI. EUPHUISM AND ARCADIANISM--ROBERT GREENE 90 VII. EUPHUISM...married." The arch-plagiarist Robert Greene must have been familiar with...resemblance is certainly hard to...
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Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (Discussion of Robert Greene begins on p. 61) » Read Now
by Constance C. Relihan. 182 pgs.

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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Discussion of Robert Greene begins on p. 22) » Read Now
by G. K. Hunter. 623 pgs.

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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences...
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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.
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A Shakespeare Companion, 1550-1950 ("Greene, Robert" begins on p. 246) » Read Now
by F. E. Halliday. 780 pgs.

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...of impecunious playwrights like Robert Greene against those Puppits that speake...instead of to their fellows, like Robert Dawes of the Lady Elizabeths who...issued a...
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Humor in British Literature, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration: A Reference Guide ("Robert Greene (1558-1592)" begins on p. 62) » Read Now
by Don L. E. Nilsen. 230 pgs.

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Humor began in British literature during the Middle Ages, when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view. This book overviews scholarship on humor in British literature from its...
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Humor began in British literature during the Middle Ages, when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view. This book overviews scholarship on humor in British literature from its medieval origins through the seventeenth century. Chapters are devoted to particular centuries, with authors listed individually within each chapter. Each entry discusses the role of humor in the author's work and includes a bibliography.
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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America ("Greene, Robert (1558-1592)" begins on p. 129) » Read Now
by John A. Wagner. 394 pgs.

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The individuals and events of the Elizabethan era continue to be popular topics for contemporary literature and film, and Elizabethan drama, poetry, and music are studied and enjoyed everywhere by students, scholars, and the general public. The Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World provides...
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The individuals and events of the Elizabethan era continue to be popular topics for contemporary literature and film, and Elizabethan drama, poetry, and music are studied and enjoyed everywhere by students, scholars, and the general public. The Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World provides its users with clear definitions and descriptions of people, events, institutions, ideas, and terminology relating in some significant way to the Elizabethan period. The first dictionary of history to focus exclusively on the reign of Elizabeth I, this volume is also the first to take abroad trans-Atlantic approach to the period by including relevant individuals and terms from Irish, Scottish, Welsh, American, and Western European history.
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