Locrine
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Locrine is an Elizabethan play depicting the legendary Trojan founders of the nation of England and of Troynovant. The play presents a cluster of complex and unresolved problems for scholars of Englis
Title page of Locrine (1595)
Robert Greene (dramatist)
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Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to L
Locrine
…while others have rejected the idea. The authorship of the original play has been assigned to several dramatists of the era, with George Peele and Robert Greene being the two most common candidates. In 2020, authorship attribution specialist Darren Freebury-Jones provided the most exhaustive examination of the…
Woodcut of Greene "suted in deaths livery", from John Dickenson's Greene in conceipt (1598)
Title page of Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1594 edition)