Robert Greene

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 Read More...

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

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Preface

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Chapter I Introduction

Chapter II

Chapter IV Nascimur Pro Patria

Chapter V The Poetry

Chapter VI Chronology of Greene's Non-Dramatic Works

Chapter VII The Plays

Conclusion

Appendix I Tabulation of the Frame-Work Tales

Appendix Ii Misconceptions Concerning Greene

Appendix Iii Early Allusions to Greene

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The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, Vol. 1 (Includes "Alphonsus King of Arragon," "A Looking Glasse," and "Orlando Furioso")
by Robert Greene, J. Churton Collins. 322 pgs.

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Preface

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General Introduction

Introduction to Alphonsvs

The Comicall Historie of Alphonsvs King of Aragon: As It Hath Bene Sundrie Times Acted

Introduction to Looking Glasse

A Looking Glafse for London and England.

The Historie of Orlando Furiofo: One of the Twelue Pieres of France.

Appendix to Orlando Fvrioso: Being the Alleyn Ms.

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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")
by Robert Greene, J. Churton Collins. 418 pgs.

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Introduction to Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay

The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bongay.: As It Was Plaid by Her Maiesties Servants.

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The Scottish Hystorie of Iames the Fovrth, Slaine at Flodden.

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A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield

A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield

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Introduction to a Maidens Dreame

A Maidens Dreame Vpon the Death of the Right Honorable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight, Late Lord Chancelor of England

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Homosociality, Imitation and Gendered Reading in Robert Greene's Ciceronis Amor, in Philological Quarterly
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")
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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: “what Thing So Precious as Wit?”: John Lyly's Euphues Works

2: “i Would Faine Serve”: John Lyly's Career at Court

3: “i Call It Praise to Suffer Tyrannie”: Sidney's (Anti) Courtly Works

4: “to Serve Your Prince by . . . an Honest Dissimulation”: the New Arcadia as a Defense of Poetry

5: “he Who Cannot Dissemble, Cannot Live”: Robert Greene's Romances

6: “i May Terme My Selfe a Writer”: Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry

Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass

Notes

Bibliography

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Elizabethan Plays and Players (Chap. V "Greene Turns Playwright" and Chap. VI "The Death of Greene")
by G. B. Harrison. 306 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter I: The Building of the Theatre

Chapter II: John Lyly

Chapter III: Stage and University

Chapter IV: New Dramatists

Chapter V: Greene Turns Playwright

Chapter VI: The Death of Greene

Chapter VII: The Death of Marlowe

Chapter VIII: Edward Alleyn and the Admiral's Men

Chapter IX: The Chamberlain's Men

Chapter X: The Humours

Chapter XI: Ben Jonson

Chapter XII: The Globe

Chapter XIII: Boy Players

Chapter XIV: Essex's Rebellion

Chapter XV: The Stage War

Chaper XVI: The End of an Era

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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")
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. 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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Acknowledgments

Note on References

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Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England

Introduction

Chapter One: Producing Robert Greene's Pandosto and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, 1585–92

Chapter Two: Commodifying Pandosto, 1592–1640

Chapter Three: Re-Commodifying Dorastus and Fawnia and the Winter's Tale, 1623–1843

Chapter Four: The Readers of Dorastus and Fawnia, 1615–1762

Epilogue

Appendices

Appendix A: Pandosto Prose Versions

Appendix B: Pandosto Verse Versions

Notes

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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)
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 "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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Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Framing Elizabethan Fictions

The Intersection of Poor Laws and Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Fictional and Factual Categories

The Lady Frances Did Watch: Gascoigne's Voyeuristic Narrative

Making Men: Visions of Social Mobility in a Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure

The Humanist in the Market: Gendering Exchange and Authorship in Lyly's Euphues Romances

Philoclea Parsed: Prose, Verse, and Femininity in Sidney's Old Arcadia

The Romance of Service: the Simple History of Pandosto's Servant Readers

Rhetoric, Gender, and Audience Construction in Thomas Nashe's the Unfortunate Traveller

Elizabethan Dreaming: Fictional Dreams from Gascoigne to Lodge

Henry Chettle's Piers Plainness: Seven Years' Prenticeship: Contexts and Consumers

Silenced Women

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

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Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia (Chap. 3 "Greene's Glucupilica" and Chap. 4 "Knowing Your Place: Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon")
by Katharine Wilson. 185 pgs.

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Introduction: 'The Ironicall Recreation of the Reader'

1: The Making of Master G.H.: Gascoigne, Whetstone, Grange, and Harvey

2: Strange and Incredible Adventures: Lyly's Euphues and Greene's Mamillia

3: Greene's Glucupilica

4: Knowing Your Place: Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon

5: From Arden to America: Lodge's Tragedies of Infatuation

Epilogue

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Index
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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")
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 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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Foure Pp

2: Wit and Science and the Dramaturgy of Learning

3: Playing Against Type: Gammer Gurton's Needle

4: Time, Tyranny, and Suspense in Political Drama of the 1560s

5: Humanism and the Dramatizing of Women

6: The Confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as Popular Dramatist

7: Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine, Part 1

8: Robert Green's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: the Commonwealth of the Present Moment

Afterword

Notes

Index
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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")
by Arthur F. Kinney. 529 pgs.

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Preface

A Note on the Texts

Introduction: In Principio Erat Verbum: the Fashioning of A Humanist Poetics

I: The Poetics of Wordplay

One: Introduction

Two: Encomium Sapientiae: Thomas More and Utopia

Three: Aliquid Salis: Narrative Wordplay and Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F. J.

II: The Poetics of Eloquence

Four: Introduction

Five: Singuler Eloquence and Braue Composition": John Lyly, Euphues, and Its Sequel

Six: Omne Tulit Punctum Qui Miscuit Vtile Dulci: Robert Greene's Fiction of Wonder

Seven: Primus Inter Pares: Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia, and the Poetic Uses of Philosophy

III: The Poetics of Doubt and Despair

Eight: Introduction

Nine: "Gallant Young Iuuenall": Thomas Nashe and the Revival of the Second Sophistic

Ten: O VIta! Misero Longa, Foelici Brevis: Thomas Lodge's Struggle for Felicity

Conclusion: L'Infinito Vniuerso Et Mondi: the Development of A Posthumanist Poetics

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Index
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Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (Discussion of Robert Greene begins on p. 61)
by Constance C. Relihan. 182 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction Elizabethan Contexts & Generic Anxiety

1: Prose, Poetry, and Popular Authority

2: Borrowed Authority Appropriating Italian Histories""

3: Constructing Voice, Subverting Narrative

4: Gender, Empowerment, and the Construction of Character

5: Authorizing Landscapes the Power of Place

6: Constructing the Alien, Authorizing the Self

Conclusion Novelistic Discourse & the Problem of Realism

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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Discussion of Robert Greene begins on p. 22)
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, 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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1: Introduction

2: Preconditions of Elizabethan Drama

3: The Emergence of the University Wits: Early Tragedy

4: Early Comedy

5: Early History Plays

6: Later History Plays

7: The Boy Actors and the New Dramaturgy

8: Later Comedy

9: Later Tragedy

10: Tragicomedy

Appendix: Entries, Masques, Jigs

Brief Biographies

Chronology

Select Bibliography and List of Plays

Index
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A Shakespeare Companion, 1550-1950 ("Greene, Robert" begins on p. 246)
by F. E. Halliday. 780 pgs.

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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America ("Greene, Robert (1558-1592)" begins on p. 129)
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 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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Appendix 2: Elizabeth Archbishops of Canterbury and York And Roman Catholic Popes

Appendix 3: European Monarchs in the Sixteenth Century

Appendix 4: Selected Historical Fiction With Tudor and Elizabethan Characters and Settings

Appendix 5: Selected Motion Pictures With Tudor and Elizabethan Characters and Settings

Appendix 6: Selected Sound Recordings Of Tudor and Elizabethan Music

Appendix 7: Selected Web Sites For Tudor and Elizabethan Topics

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