The Life And Complete Works In Prose And Verse Of Robert Greene 15 Vols 1881-6

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ROBERT GREENE Alexander B. Grosart (Ed.) (Huth Library) THE LIFE AND COMPLETE WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ROBERT GREENE M.A. Edited By Alexander B. Grosart Hardcover Publisher: Huth Library: Alexander B. Grosart, GB, 1881 Used - Good. Published between 1881 and 1886. 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. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. 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 London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. According to Newcomb, '[Greene's] works evince an inexhaustible linguistic facility, grounded in wide (if not painstaking) reading in the classics, and extra-curricular reading in the modern continental languages'. He wrote prolifically: From 1583 to 1592, he published more than twenty-five works in prose, becoming one of the first authors in England to support himself with his pen in an age when professional authorship was virtually unknown. In his later "coney-catching" pamphlets, Greene fashioned himself into a well-known public figure, telling colourful inside stories of rakes and rascals duping young gentlemen and solid citizens out of their hard-earned money. These stories, told from the perspective of a repentant former rascal, have been considered autobiographical, and have been thought to incorporate many facts of Greene's own life thinly veiled as fiction: his early riotous living, his marriage and desertion of his wife and child for the sister of a notorious character of the London underworld, his dealings with players, and his success in the production of plays for them. However, according to Newcomb, in his later prose works "Greene himself built his persona around a myth of prodigal decline that cannot be taken at face value". His plays earned himself the title as one of the "University Wits", including John Lyly, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, and Christopher Marlowe. 15 uniform volumes, one with a detached cover, couple of other boards in set loose. Insides are clean and bright, pencil markings on inside cover of vol 1. Pale grey paper covered boards with vellum-like spines, which are scruffy but most of the orginal paper labels remain. Endpapers a bit browned. Only 50 copies of this edition were apparently printed though this set is unnumbered
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