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
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)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
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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
Robert Greene (dramatist)
…professional author in England. He was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. Greene's most famous play is Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. He is also known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to…
Title page of the 1630 printing of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. The engraving shows the magical talking brazen head at top.