ABSTRACT
The Scottish History of James the Fourth (hereafter James IV) has long been praised for its energetic exposition, its complex plotting, its comic routines, and its ground-breaking examination of gender and sexual norms through Dorothea’s assumption of a male disguise. Written by Robert Greene towards the end of his relatively short career as a professional writer, the play is conversant with Greene’s popular print pamphlets and with the plays and dramatic styles of the professional theater in the late 1580s and early 1590s.
