Overview
While Robert Greene was the most prolific and perhaps the most notorious professional writer in Elizabethan England, he continues to be best known for his 1592 quip comparing Shakespeare to ""an upstart crow."" In his short twelve-year career, Greene wrote dozens of popular pamphlets in a variety of genres and numerous professional plays. At his premature death in 1592, he was a bonafide London celebrity, simultaneously maligned as Grub-Street profligate and celebrated as literary prodigy. The present volume constitutes the first collection of Greene's reception both in the early modern period and in our present era, offering in its poems, prose passages, essays, and chapters that which is most singular among what has been written about Greene and his work. It also includes a complete list of Greene's contemporary reception until 1640. Kirk Melnikoff's wide-ranging and revisionist introduction organizes this reception generically while at the same time situating it in the context of recent critical methodologies.
Full Product Details
Author: Kirk Melnikoff ,
Professor Robert A. Logan ,
Professor Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Weight: 1.390kg
ISBN: 9780754628583
ISBN 10: 0754628582
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 28 March 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'excellent critical anthology...' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Melnikoff has done the scholarly community a great service by assembling a substantial and coherent collection of essays that illustrate the positive treatments of Greene’s prose contrasted with the shabby treatment of the drama'. Marlowe Society of America Newsletter
'excellent critical anthology...' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Melnikoff has done the scholarly community a great service by assembling a substantial and coherent collection of essays that illustrate the positive treatments of Greene's prose contrasted with the shabby treatment of the drama'. Marlowe Society of America Newsletter
Author Information
Kirk Melnikoff is Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA Charles Crupi, Johnstone Parr, Alexandra Halasz, Steve Mentz, Lori Humphrey Newcombe, W.W. Barker, Walter R. Davis, Arthur F. Kinney, Brenda Cantar, Kevin L. Gustafson, Georgianna Ziegler, A.R. Braunmuller, Kent Cartwright, Ian McAdam, Irving Ribner, Norman Sanders, Reid Barbour, Karen Helfand Bix, Lawrence Manley, Jeremy Dimmick, Richard Helgerson.
