Tag: Pinder of Wakefield

Robert Greene’s “George-a-Greene: The Pinner of Wakefield” (1599) | Stephen Basdeo

The name of the Pinder to Wakefield locals is, as Shakespeare might say, ‘familiar in [their] mouths as household words’. The Pinders Fields, however, reveal an exciting history of rebellion, outlawry, and patriotism; so expressed in Robert Greene’s play in 1599 titled “The Pinner of Wakefield.”