Writing Robert Greene

Melnikoff, Kirk; Gieskes, Edward

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“…Both these authorial personas (homo academicus and poeta publicus, in Bryan Reynold's and Henry Turner's formulation) are present in much of his work, and the attempt to reconcile them in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay is in large measure what gives the play its complexity. 22 Ultimately, however, the two may not be reconciled so much as held in an uneasy suspension. By the same token, nationalism and multilateralism need not be mutually exclusive, and Greene may not soundly reject the former in favour of the latter but simultaneously pursue both with an ambivalence that continues to vex Anglo-European politics to this day.…”

Section: Bacon's Wall and Anglo-european Diplomacymentioning

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“…(3.1. [18][19][20][21][22] A deer park surrounded with a wooden pale seems far less daunting than Gaunt's wall or moat, much less Bacon's brass wall. While oaks might signify wooden war ships, recalling the English navy's victory over the Spanish fleet, the queen's villainous behaviour undercuts her isolationist policy.…”

Section: Fortress England and Metaphorical Wallsmentioning

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Building a Wall Around Tudor England: Coastal Forts and Fantasies of Border Control in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Borlik

2019

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This article examines the border wall and the image of fortress England in RobertGreene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and early 1590s nationalist discourse. While Greene recognizes the need for an international outlook in geopolitics, Bacon's wall speaks to contemporary interest in coastal fortifications and brass ordnance in the wake of the Spanish Armada. Greene lampoons the wall as magical thinking, but the play clings to metaphorical walls as more cost-effective symbols of national security and autonomy. The play's awkward combination of pan-European sentiment and strident nationalism offers a prophetic commentary on post-Brexit Britain.

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Building a Wall Around Tudor England: Coastal Forts and Fantasies of Border Control in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

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2019

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Robert Greene’s Ghosts

Fallon¹

2016

Modern Language Quarterly

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After the popular Elizabethan writer Robert Greene died in 1592, a series of pamphlets appeared with stories of his ghost’s haunting returns. These pamphlets—Henry Chettle’s Kind-Harts Dreame (1592), Barnabe Riche’s Greenes Newes both from Heauen and Hell (1593), and John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598)—played on the striking persona that Greene had fashioned for himself, premised on a mode of self-disclosure at odds with his romances’ fictional surfaces and crafted to remedy the impersonality of print circulation. The ghost pamphlets both appropriated and demystified the charisma of Greene’s persona, their acts of ventriloquism exposing the fiction behind his performance of sincerity. At the same time, they confronted the fictionality at the heart of public discourse itself—the imaginary presence that grounded the increasingly diffuse readerships of the early modern book trade.

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Nostalgic Temporalities in Greenes Vision

Cook¹

2016

Parergon

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Writing Robert Greene

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Building a Wall Around Tudor England: Coastal Forts and Fantasies of Border Control in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Building a Wall Around Tudor England: Coastal Forts and Fantasies of Border Control in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Robert Greene’s Ghosts

Nostalgic Temporalities in Greenes Vision

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