Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England's First Notorious Professional Writer

by Kirk Melnikoff

Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period's most recognized-even notorious-literary figures, his place within the canon of Renaissance writers has been marginal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754657019
• ISBN13: 9780754657019
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"