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Robert Greene: [Six Plays]
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. ...
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- THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE
- EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
- THOMAS H. DICKINSON
- THE MERMAID SERIES
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ALPHONSUS, KING OF ARRAGON
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- THE COMICAL HISTORY OF ALPHONSUS, KING OF ARRAGON ACT THE FIRST
- PROLOGUE
- SCENE I.—Near Naples.
- SCENE II.—The Camp of Belinus.
- ACT THE SECOND
- PROLOGUE
- SCENE I.—A Battle-field.
- SCENE II.—Another Part of the Field.
- ACT THE THIRD
- PROLOGUE
- SCENE I.—Camp of Alphonsus, near Naples.
- SCENE II.—Palace of Amurack at Constantinople.
- SCENE III.—A Grove.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- PROLOGUE
- SCENE I.—The Temple of Mahomet.
- SCENE II.—Near Naples.
- SCENE III.—Camp of Amurack, near Naples.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- PROLOGUE
- SCENE I.—A Battle-field near Naples.
- SCENE II.—Another Part of the Field.
- SCENE III.—The Camp of Alphonsus.
- EPILOGUE
- A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND ACT THE FIRST
- SCENE I.—The Palace of Rasni in Nineveh.
- SCENE II.—A Public Place in Nineveh.
- SCENE III.—At the Usurer's.
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE I.—The Palace of Rasni.
- SCENE II.—A Court of Justice in Nineveh.
- SCENE III.—A Street near the King's Palace.
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE I.—A Seaport in Judea.
- SCENE II.—A Public Place in Nineveh.
- SCENE III.—Within the Smith's House.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE I.—Joppa.
- SCENE II.—The Seashore near Nineveh.
- SCENE III.—The Garden of Rasni's Palace.
- SCENE IV.—A Public Place in Nineveh.
- SCENE V.—A Public Place near the Usurer's.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE I.—The Palace of Rasni.
- SCENE II.—A Street near the Temple.
- SCENE III.—Outside the City of Nineveh.
- SCENE IV.—Within the City of Nineveh.
- SCENE V.—The Palace of Rasni.
- ORLANDO FURIOSO
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- THE HISTORY OF ORLANDO FURIOSO[132] ACT THE FIRST
- SCENE I.—The Palace of Marsilius.
- SCENE II.—Before the Walls of Rodomont's Castle.
- SCENE III.—A Battle-field.
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE I.—Near the Castle of Marsilius.
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE I.—The Woods near the Castle of Marsilius.
- SCENE II.—An Open Place in the Woods.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE I.—The Camp of the Twelve Peers of France.
- SCENE II.—A Grove.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE I.—A Battle-field.
- SCENE II.—The Camp of Marsilius.
- FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- THE HONOURABLE HISTORY OF FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY ACT THE FIRST
- SCENE I.—At Framlingham.
- SCENE II.—Friar Bacon's cell at Brazen-nose.
- SCENE III.—Harleston Fair.
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE I.—The Court at Hampton House.
- SCENE II.—A Street in Oxford.
- SCENE III.—Friar Bacon's Cell.
- SCENE IV.—The Regent House at Oxford.
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE I.—At Fressingfield.
- SCENE II.—At Oxford.
- SCENE III.—At Fressingfield.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE I.—Friar Bacon's Cell.
- SCENE II.—At Court.
- SCENE III.—Friar Bacon's Cell.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE I.—A Meadow near the Keepers Lodge.
- SCENE II.—Friar Bacon's Cell.
- SCENE III.—At Court.
- JAMES THE FOURTH
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- JAMES THE FOURTH[238]
- THE INDUCTION.
- ACT THE FIRST
- SCENE I.—The Court at Edinburgh.
- SCENE II.—Public Place in Edinburgh.
- SCENE III.—Sir Bartram's Castle.
- CHORUS[258]
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- (4.)[260]
- (5.)
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE I.—Porch to the Castle of the Countess of Arran.
- SCENE II.—The Court at Edinburgh.
- CHORUS[270]
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE I.—Edinburgh.
- SCENE II.—The Same.
- SCENE III.—The Palace of the King of Scots.
- CHORUS
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE I.—On the King's Preserves.
- SCENE II.—Near the Castle of the Countess of Arran.
- SCENE III.—A Public Place near the Palace.
- SCENE IV.—The Forest near Edinburgh.
- SCENE V.—Another part of the Forest.
- CHORUS
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE I.—Castle of Sir Cuthbert Anderson.
- SCENE II.—Porch to the Castle of the Countess of Arran.
- SCENE III.—The English Camp before Dunbar.
- SCENE IV.—Near the Scottish Camp.
- SCENE V.—Castle of Sir Cuthbert Anderson.
- SCENE VI.—Camp of the King of Scots.
- GEORGE-A-GREENE, THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- GEORGE-A-GREENE, THE PINNER[299] OF WAKEFIELD ACT THE FIRST
- SCENE I.—At Bradford.
- SCENE II.—At Wakefield.
- SCENE III.—In Westmoreland.
- SCENE IV.—At Bradford.
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE I.—Before Sir John-a-Barley's Castle.
- SCENE II.—The Same.
- SCENE III.—At Wakefield.
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE I.—Before Grime's house in Bradford.
- SCENE II.—A Wood near Wakefield.
- SCENE III.—A Wood near Wakefield.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE I.—Camp of King Edward.
- SCENE II.—Robin Hood's Retreat.
- SCENE III.—At Bradford.
- SCENE IV.—At Wakefield.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE I.—At Bradford.
- APPENDIX
- THE JOLLY PINDER OF WAKEFIELD WITH ROBIN HOOD, SCARLET AND JOHN.
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