Robert Greene (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Robert Greene is known primarily for his comedies, prose romances, and pamphlets of London rogue life. Four plays are definitely his: Orlando furioso (c. 1588), Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (c. 1589), James IV (c. 1591), and A Looking Glass for London and England (c. 1588-1589; with Thomas Lodge). A fifth, John of Bordeaux (c. 1590-1591), has been attributed to Greene because of its close similarity to his known work in theme, diction, and structure. Two more, Alphonsus, King of Aragon (c. 1587) and Selimus...
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