Robert Greene
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Researchers of English Renaissance drama who need primary play texts for comparison
- Students in Shakespeare courses seeking background on contemporary drama
- Enthusiasts of early modern English texts willing to adapt to old spelling
- Collectors of public-domain ebooks who need a searchable English play collection
Not a good fit for
- General readers who only want Shakespeare's own works
- Beginners unaccustomed to early modern English spelling and syntax
- Readers seeking modern annotations or a detailed introduction
Reading tips
- Read one short play first to get used to the spelling and syntax before deciding whether to read the whole collection.
- Read alongside Shakespeare's contemporary works and note similarities and differences in plot conventions.
- Use the search function of the electronic text to locate passages of moral allegory by keyword.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Robert Greene (1558?–1592) was an English Elizabethan playwright, poet and prose writer, and one of the "University Wits." His works span romance fiction, pamphlets exposing London coney-catching tricks, and plays, showing varied subjects and a sharp, satirical edge. The Scottish History of James the Fourth is regarded as a forerunner of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, while Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, published after his death, first mentions Shakespeare and offers an early clue for later scholarship. Three of his works are held in this collection. Because public information is limited, details of his life are hard to set out; his subjects and influence are the better way to know him.
