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LYLY, John
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LYLY, John [
c.1554–1606]. English writer and Member of Parliament, born in Kent, and educated at Oxford and Cambridge. Known as ‘the Euphuist’, he was one of the first prose stylists to leave a lasting mark on the language. He wrote the two-part romance
Euphues, or the Anatomie of Wit (1578) and
Euphues and his England (1580), an early epistolary ‘novel’ with comments on religion, love, and style. His ‘new English’ favoured an ornate, classical style widely admired during the Renaissance and known to this day as
euphuism.
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"I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court.(comedy plays)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; The most common assumption about John Lyly's court comedies has been that they...as the basis for an understanding of Lyly's "meaning." I would like to shift...focus somewhat by looking at the ways Lyly's plays reflect upon his own career...
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Endymion: John Lyly and The Plays of John Lyly: 'Eros and Eliza'.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Endymion: John Lyly. Ed. by David Bevington. (The Revels...206 pp. [pound]40. The Plays of John Lyly: 'Eros and Eliza'. Ed. by Michael...1996.xv+205 pp. [pound]40. John Lyly is the most famous of the many now unread...
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The victim of fashion? Rereading the biography of John Lyly.(essay)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; We have looked at Lyly's Euphues and his plays as literary experiences...Warwick Bond's monumental edition of Lyly's work, published at the start of the...material that can be firmly attributed to Lyly in the fifteen-year period prior to his...
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A borrowing from Suetonius's Life of Caligula in Lyly's Midas.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; John Lyly's Midas has often been seen as an allegorical...Bevington, eds. Galatea and Midas. By John Lyly. 1592. New York: Manchester UP, 2000...Anne Begor, ed. Gallathea and Midas. By John Lyly. 1592. London: Edward Arnold, 1970...
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Cross-Dressing and John Lyly's Gallathea.(Elizabethan author)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of class subversions to gender subversions regarding the narrative and historical incarnations of cross-dressing in John Lyly's Gallathea (1583-85) has still not been worked out thoroughly enough, especially regarding whether or not those...
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The Language of Framing.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; AT THE END OF JOHN LYLY'S 1580 prose narrative, Euphues and...do justice to the glory of Elizabeth, Lyly says that the Glass is a frame rather than...though he presume not to paynt hir."(1) Lyly fabricates a classical authority for his...
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The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in his 1902 multivolume edition of John Lyly's works. (4) Despite Bond...led G. K. Hunter in his 1962 book John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier to adopt...David Bevington's 1966 essay "John Lyly and Queen Elizabeth: Royal Flattery...
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Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...is a selection of canonical texts: John Lyly's Euphues, Sir Philip Sidney's...one nevertheless wonders whether Lyly's courtly fictions, Euphues and...political positions. Dolven ranks Lyly among "the most ambitious romancers...
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Review of Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...1992 5253X. Steve Mentz St. John's University mentzs@stjohns...plea that the works of Greene, Lyly, Gascoigne, Lodge, and Nashe...including George Whetstone and John Grange, and later John Lyly and Robert Greene, attempted...
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Endymion au carrefour: La fortune litteraire et artistique du mythe d'Endymion a l'aube de l'ere moderne.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...world by the Renaissance playwright John Lyly, whose play diagnoses a full-blown...became famous in the Romantic vision of John Keats's epic poem (Endymion, 1818...Conegliano (Endymion, ca. 1510) and Lyly than with Keats's silvery text and...
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Lyly, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Lyly, John ( c. 1554–1606), English novelist...Children of Paul's, whose vice-regent Lyly became in c. 1590. Among them were Campaspe...possibly acted a couple of years earlier. Lyly, whose new use of language undoubtedly influenced...
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John Lyly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Lyly , 1554?-1606, English dramatist and prose writer. An accomplished courtier...of manners and was one of the most influential works of its time. In it Lyly tried to establish an ideal of perfected prose style, which was actually...
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LYLY, John
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
LYLY, John [ c. 1554–1606]. English writer and Member of Parliament, born in Kent, and educated at Oxford and Cambridge...
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euphuism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...comes from late 16th century: from Euphues , the name of a character in John Lyly's prose romance of the same name (1578–80), from Greek...style popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in imitation of Lyly's work.
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comedy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...models came to be written. The plays of John Heywood and Rastell retain more of the elements...by a romantic element, as exemplified by Lyly and Greene , drawn from Italian and French romances. Lyly in particular explored the possibilities...
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