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Robert Green

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

Founder, Chair of the Secretaries of University Learner, India School on Internet Governance Fellow 2024, IIM-B, Member of Internet Society, Bangalore, Internal Complaints Committee Member, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, Teach for India Fellow 2023 and Fellowship Recruitment Committee, Delhi

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Robert Green (1558-1592)

  1. Alma mater: Oxford and Cambridge
  2. Considered t be the founder of romantic comedy ***
  3. Works:
    1. Mamillia in 1583 (a romance)
    2. Euphues: his Censure to Philautus 1587
    3. The History of Orlando Furisno 1590
    4. A Looking Glass for London and England (with Thomas Lodge) 1590
    5. A Comic History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon 1590
    6. A Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance 1592
    7. Philomela 1592
    8. A Quip for an Upstart Courtier 1592
  4. Short Romances in the manner of Lyly’s Euphues:
      1. From this Shakespeare drew the plot for A Winter’s Tale ***
  5. Pamphlets:
    1. A Notable Discovery of Coosnage 1592
    2. A Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance 1592
Four plays
  1. Alphonsus, King of Aragon 1587
An imitation of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
  1. Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay 1589
    1. One of the first romantic comedies, deals with Bacon’s proof of his magical powers before King Henry III
  2. Orlando furioso 1591
Adopted from an English translation of Aristo 
  1. The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth – 1592
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