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Robert Greene (1558 - 1592) was an English dramatist, poet,pamphleteer, rake and debauchee. He appears as a minor character inboth of Anthony Burgess' Elizabethan novels Nothing Like The Sun(about Shakespeare) and A Dead Man In Deptford (about Marlowe). Agraduate of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he eloped with a wealthy womanwhom he abandoned after having spent all her money. He then went toLondon, where he lived by writing, associated with whores, thieves,and low fellows of every kind, and spent money faster than he got iton drunkenness and debauchery. The "Groatsworth of Wit", alsoavailable on this site, athttps://www.wattpad.com/story/2740484-a-groatsworth-of-wit-bought-with-a-million-of is his best known work,and has the first reference in print to William Shakespeare as aplaywright. In addition he wrote six plays, an amount of poetry andnumerous pamphlets, mostly love stories and accounts of criminalsand swindlers. In the six pamphlets here collected you will learn about thetricks of cony-catchers (swindlers), nips (cutpurses), foists(pickpockets), cross-biters (men who extort money from aprostitute's clients by pretending to be her husband), lifts(shoplifters, and stealers of other unguarded goods), priggers(horse thieves), and courbers (thieves who drag goods out throughthe window with a long hooked pole). Based on close observation,and illustrated with stories of notable strokes, they give a greatinsight into the underside of queen Bess's and Shakespeare's London.…