This article is about the Elizabethan author. For other people with similar names, see Fulke Greville (disambiguation).

Sir Fulke Greville (1554 - September 30, 1628) was a minor Elizabethan poet and dramatist, a friend and contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney at Royal Shrewsbury School, enrolling on the same day. After a distinguished administrative career under Elizabeth I and James I (in the course of which he served successively as secretary to the Principality of Wales, Treasurer of the Navy, and Chancellor of the Exchequer), he was created Baron Brooke in 1621.

Works

Towards the end of his life, his varied literary output was gathered together and published:

• in 1633: two tragedies (Alaham and Mustapha); a sonnet cycle (Caelia); and a philosophical treatise in verse (A Treatie of Humane Learning)
• in 1652: The Life of the Rennowned Sir Philip Sidney, a biography of his schoolfellow

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