Reading Robert Greene : recovering Shakespeare's rival / Darren Freebury-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freebury-Jones, Darren, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Literary style.

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592--Literary style.

Greene, Robert.

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592--Criticism and interpretation.

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright's canon through analyses of Greene's verse style, vocabulary, rhyming habits, and the dramatist's phraseology in his attested plays and in comparison to four plays that have long been on the margins of Greene's corpus: Locrine, Selimus, George a Greene, and A Knack to Know a Knave. The book defines the ranges for Greene's stylistic habits for the very first time, and proceeds to identify parallels of thought, language, and overall dramaturgy that reveal a single author's creative consciousness. This volume also casts light on Greene as a more collaborative dramatist than has hitherto been acknowledged. Through emphasizing the immediate surroundings in which Greene was writing - the flourishing of popular theatres in two compact areas of London, in which each theatre company and their dramatists kept a close eye on what their competitors were producing - Greene emerges as an influential playwright, whose restored oeuvre enables us to establish new ways in which his dramatic methods impacted other writers of the period, including Shakespeare"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Situating Greene

Defining Greene

Greene's acknowledged plays

Collaborating with Greene

Greene's marginal plays

Comparing Greene's marginal plays

Recovering Greene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Freebury-Jones, Darren. Reading Robert Greene

ISBN:

9781032154060

1032154063

9781032154091

1032154098

OCLC:

1287921534

Publisher Number:

99996783054