Title page to a 1655 edition of Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, the picture of which features Bacon’s “brazen head” uttering “Time was. . . Time is. . . Time is past. . .”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Robert Greene, the First Bohemian
Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene was a fascinating figure. Ed Simon explores the literary merits and bohemian traits of the man who penned the earliest known (and far from flattering) reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.
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Title page to a 1655 edition of Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Date
1655
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Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
