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Friar Bacon Honorable Bungay Comedy Robert Frier Play

Front The honorable history Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Back Comedy
In prose and verse
Robert Greene
1594
Bacon makes a brass head with the help of Bungay then with the help of Devil confers the power of speech on it

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.

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