ROBERT GREENE(DRAMATİST) 1560-1592

LİFE Robert Greene was born july , 1560 in

Norwich.

He died september 3 , 1592 in London.

He majored from both Oxford and Cambridge universities.

CAREER He travelled to France ,Spain and Italy

between 1578 and 1580 to study and examine.

After getting back to England. He worked hard and succeeded to make successful works one after another.

He was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him.

Greene published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography.

Greene is one of the first professional writer, and the first autobiography writer in the english literature.

WRİTİNG He wrote prolifically;

from 1583 to 1592 he published more than twenty-five works in prose, becoming one of the first authors in England to support himself with his pen in an age when professional authorship was virtually unknown

Greene's literary career began with the publication of a long romance, Mamillia, entered in the Stationers' Register on 3 October 1580.[1]Greene's romances were written in a highly wrought style which reached its highest level in Pandosto

 (1588) and Menaphon (1589).[20]

PROSE WORKS Mamillia: A Mirror or Looking-glass for the Ladies of England (1583),

dedicated to Lord Darcy of the North

Mamillia: The Second Part of the Triumph of Pallas (1593), dedicated to Robert Lee and Roger Portington

The Anatomy of Lovers' Flatteries (1584), dedicated to Mary Rogers, wife to Master Hugh Rogers of Everton[26]

The Myrrour of Modestie (1584), dedicated to Margaret, Countess of Derby

Arbasto; The Anatomy of Fortune (1584), dedicated to Lady Mary Talbot

Gwydonius; The Card of Fancy (1584), dedicated to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

The Debate Between Folly and Love (1584), no dedicatee[27]

The Second Part of the Tritameron of Love (1587), no dedicatee

 Verse A Maiden's Dream (1591), dedicated to Lady Elizabeth Hatton, wife to Sir 

William Hatton[30]

Plays Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (circa 1590)

The History of Orlando Furioso (circa 1590)

A Looking Glass for London and England (with Thomas Lodge) (circa 1590)

The Scottish History of James the Fourth (circa 1590)

The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon (circa 1590)