Robert Greene (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part I Greene's Life: Greene's life, Charles Crupi; Robert Greene and his classmates at Cambridge, Johnstone Parr. Part II Early Reception: Roger Portington Esquier, in commendation of the booke, Roger Portington; In praise of the author and his booke, G.B. [William Boston]; Richard Stapleton gentleman to the courteous and courtlie ladies of England, Richard Stapleton; Au R. Greene gentilhome, sonnet, John Eliot; In Roberi Greni metamorphosin, carmen enkomiastikon, G.B. [William Boston]; In laudem Roberti Greni Cantab. In artibus margistri, Unsigned; Thomas Brabine gent. In praise of the author, Thomas Brabine; From 'To the gentlemen students of both uniuersities', Thomas Nashe; From Greene's Never Too Late, Richard Hake; [Untitled] from 'Francesco's Fortunes', R.S.; From 'Four Letters and Certain Sonnets', Gabriel Harvey; The printer to the gentlemen readers, Cuthbert Burby; From 'Strange News', Thomas Nashe; From 'Kind-Harts Dream', Henry Chettle; From 'Greene's News both from Heaven and Hell', Barnabe Rich; Sonnet IIII, Sonnet VIII, Sonnet IX and Sonnet X, Richard Barnfield; From 'To the Christian Reader', Thomas Bowes; From Have with You to Saffron-Walden, Thomas Nashe; An aduertisement to the reader, John Dickenson; From Palladis Tamia, Francis Meres. Part III Greene, Print Culture and Authorship: From The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, Alexandra Halasz; Anti-epic traditions: Greene's romances, Steve Mentz; 'Social things': the production of popular culture in the reception of Robert Greene's 'Pandosto', Lori Humphrey Newcomb. Part IV Greene's Early and Mid-Career Fiction: Rhetorical romance: the 'frivolous toyes' of Robert Greene, W.W. Barker; Robert Greene and Greek romance, Walter R. Davis; Humanist poetics and Elizabethan fiction, Arthur F. Kinney. Part V Greene, Romance and Gender: 'Silenced but for the word': the discourse of incest in Greene's 'Pandosto' and 'Menaphon', Brenda Cantar; Homosociality, imitation, and gendered reading in Robert Greene's 'Ciceronis Amor', Kevin L. Gustafson; Penelope and the politics of woman's place in the Renaissance, Georgianna Ziegler. Part VI Greene and Drama: The serious comedy of Greene's 'James IV', A.R. Braunmuller; Robert Greene's 'Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay': the commonwealth of the present moment, Kent Cartwright; Masculinity and magic in 'Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay', Ian McAdam; Greene's attack on Marlowe: some light on 'Alphonsus' and 'Selimus', Irving Ribner; The comedy of Greene and Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. Part VII Greene's True Crime: Greene discovering, Reid Barbour; 'Masters of their occupation': labor and fellowship in the cony-catching pamphlets, Karen Helfand Bix; Cony-catching: anatomy of anatomy, Lawrence Manley. Part VIII Greene and Repentance: Gower, Chaucer, and the art of repentance in Robert Greene's 'Vision', Jeremy Dimmick; Greene, Richard Helgerson. Appendix: a bibliography of further Greene references to 1700. Name index.