{"product_id":"friar-bacon-and-friar-bungay-9780803252622","title":"Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert 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 \u003ci\u003eFriar Bacon and Friar Bungay\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Seltzer was professor of English at Harvard University and at Princeton University, as well as an actor on stage and in films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845318545682,"sku":"9780803252622","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f1e14f3-60f5-4fba-958e-ada208637713.jpg?v=1737347971","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/friar-bacon-and-friar-bungay-9780803252622","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}