Greene’s Groats-Worth of Witte Bought with a Million of Repentance (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Greene
- First Published: 1592
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Late sixteenth century
- Setting: A city resembling London
- Principal Characters: Roberto, Lucanio, Lamilia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: England or English people, London, Sixteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Badgers
- Locales: London, England
The Story:
Gorinius, an old usurer who lived in a city with strong resemblances to London, addressed his sons from his deathbed. He counseled the younger, Lucanio, his heir, to follow his example and “heap treasure upon treasure” in every way possible, moral or immoral, advising him above all to disregard conscience where profit is involved. He disinherited his older son, Roberto, who had dared to condemn his father and others of his profession for their unscrupulous dealings. Gorinius left Roberto with only “an old groat wherewith I wish him to buy a groatsworth of wit:...
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