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.
- ISBN10 0859670252
- ISBN13 9780859670258
- Publish Date 26 December 1973 (first published 1 September 1963)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Scolar Press
- Edition Facsimile of 1594 ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English