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Genres of Conscience in Greenes Vision, the Groatsworth of Wit, and The Repentance of Robert Greene

Abstract The bewildering variety of genres present in Robert Greene’s repentance pamphlets provide markedly different vocal environments in which the first-person narrators of these works speak. As the discourse of conscience penetrates Greene’s textual persona in successive genres of the pamphlets, a sense of mutual entanglement envelops the voices of conscience and ‘Greene.’ The rich scriptural, devotional, documentary, and literary material underwriting the generic diversity of the pamphlets modulates the competing claims that ‘Greene’ and conscience make on the narrator’s voice. In some cases, these modulations provide much latitude for Greene’s persona to speak; in other instances, they work to restrict ‘Greene’ by yoking the narrator’s voice to recited idioms of confessional prayer or to comparably restrictive formal features of precept or lament which lay claim to a type of traditionally sourced authority for the voice of conscience in the pamphlets. Ultimately, however, the dependence of conscience on assorted textual features that are mediated by genre is part of a larger bibliographic orientation to conscience in the pamphlets. Through it, the pamphlets expose how dependent written accounts of conscience are on the textual qualities that give conscience voice but also frequently change with genre.