Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

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The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay is an Elizabethan play by Robert Greene, based on Roger Bacon, a thirteenth-century English Franciscan known for his engagement in the premodern sciences and reputedly a practicioner of magic. The play depicts Bacon as a necromancer at Oxford during the reign of King Henry III, whose services the king's son Edward enlists to court a common woman. Friar Bacon was likely inspired by the success of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, about another alleged necromancer. However, Greene's play is much more comedic in its tone.

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