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Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , The 33 Strategies of War , The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent ), Mastery , The Laws of Human Nature , and The Daily Laws .
Greene, the son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffordshire, by his wife Mary Pretty of Fazeley, was born about 1678.His father, who according to the son was a repository of all the Christian virtues, died while Greene was a boy, and it was through the generosity of his uncle, John Pretty, rector of Farley, Hampshire, that he was sent to Clare Hall, Cambridge.
The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.3 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages. [6] Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and the Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike".
Robert Green Ingersoll (/ ˈ ɪ ŋ ɡ ər ˌ s ɔː l,-ˌ s ɒ l,-s əl /; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by Robert Greene. Widely regarded as Greene's best and most significant play, it has received more critical attention than any other of Greene's dramas. [1]
Title page of Greene's Groats-worth of Wit 1592. Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (1592) is a tract published as the work of the Elizabethan author Robert Greene. It was published as a short book or pamphlet, a form that was popular and which contributed to the lively intellectual life of the time.
Kwanzaaa, which lasts for seven days, is a holiday festival, not a religion as Greene claims. It was created in 1966 as a way to allow Black people worldwide to celebrate their common African roots.
Robert Greene (born 1953) is an American contemporary artist known for his early Arcadian landscapes and later shift towards abstract, textured monochromatic patterns. His work, characterized by a distinctive style that blurs the boundaries between these two mediums, has been showcased in Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others.