Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay - Softcover

Greene, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803252625 ISBN 13: 9780803252622

Publisher: University of Nebraska, 1963

Synopsis

Robert Greene (1558-1592) was the author of romances, pamphlets, lyrics, and plays. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, and led a remarkably irresponsible and dissolute life. The comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay was probably written and produced around 1589, and was first printed in 1594. Its account of the marvelous exploits of Friar Bacon is drawn from The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, a sixteenth-century account of the legends surrounding the Oxford Franciscan, Roger Bacon (b. 1214). The play was an important influence both on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Daniel Seltzer was professor of English at Harvard University and at Princeton University, as well as an actor on stage and in films.

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Daniel Seltzer was professor of English at Harvard University and at Princeton University, as well as an actor on stage and in films.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska
• Publication date: 1963
• ISBN 10: 0803252625
• ISBN 13: 9780803252622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106
• Editor: Seltzer Daniel