ABSTRACT
Robert Greene (1560?-92), romancer and playwright, was educated at Cambridge and thereafter lived by his pen in London, according to his own and other accounts, a dissipated existence. His best known play is ‘The Honorable Historie of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay’ (acted 1594). He exploited his knowledge of the Elizabethan underworld in the Cony-Catching pamphlets. ‘A Groatsworth of Wit’ was his dying testament, and is chiefly remembered for the attack on Shakespeare as ‘the onely Shake-scene in a countrey’.
