Robert Greene, James the Fourth

Peter Brynmor Roberts (Cardiff University)

Ed. by David Fuller, University of Durham
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

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First circulation or publication 1598

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England (Country of Origin)

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Robert Greene’s

The Scottish Historie of Iames the fourth, slaine at Flodden

was printed in 1598, six years after the death of its author. Greene’s friend – and possible collaborator – Thomas Nashe wrote of him: “In a night & a day would he have yarkt up a Pamphlet as well as in seaven yeare, and glad was that Printer that might bee so blest to pay him deare for the very dregs of his wit” (1.287). This testifies to Greene’s immense and enduring popularity (the tract

Greene in Conceipt

also appeared in 1598, purporting to have been written by the dead Greene, with a title-page image of him sitting up in his winding-sheet, pen in hand). In addition, Nashe’s comment suggests Greene’s habit of writing carelessly and at speed. After all, Nashe went on to add: “his only care…

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Citation: Roberts, Peter Brynmor. "James the Fourth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 October 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4363, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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