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Lyly, John - both: lĭlˈē, 1554?–1606, English dramatist and prose writer. An accomplished courtier, he also served as a member of Parliament from 1589 to 1601. His Euphues, published in two parts (The Anatomy of Wit, 1578, and Euphues and His England, 1580), was an early example of the novel of manners and was one of the most influential works of its time. In it Lyly

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Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & His England » Read Now
by John Lyly, Harry A. M. Clemons, Morris William Croll. 482 pgs.

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Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde » Read Now
by John Franceschina. 346 pgs.

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Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different periods of English cultural and literary history. This book is a broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. It draws on...
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Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different periods of English cultural and literary history. This book is a broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. It draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, psychology, literature, and drama. The first chapter provides a background for the book by discussing the nature of same-sex behavior in the ancient and medieval worlds. The chapters that follow discuss such topics as sodomy and transvestite theatre in the Renaisssance; female transvestism on the English stage during the 17th century; bisexuality in 18th-century drama; the rise of English homophobia and the proliferation of lesbian relationships in England between 1745 and 1790; the homophobic context of English theatre during the Romantic Movement (1790-1835); and the rebirth of interest in Greek thought and its associations with same-sex poetry,,drama, and pornography in the Victorian era (1840-1900).
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Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an Historical View of Our Earlier Comedy ("John Lyly" begins on p. 263) » Read Now
by Charles Mills Gayley. 686 pgs.

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...The Same 259 V. JOHN LYLY: Critical Essay George P. Baker...May-day, Hox Tuesday, and the Eve of St. John and St. Peter, while we may at once...devils, as well as to Robin...
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English Drama (Chap. III "Lyly, Marlowe and Other Immediate Predecessors of Shakespeare") » Read Now
by Felix E. Schelling. 346 pgs.

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English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare (Chap. 7 "The Boy Actors and the New Dramaturgy") » Read Now
by G. K. Hunter. 623 pgs.

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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences...
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Shakespeare is usually set apart from his contemporaries, in kind no less than quality. This book, the long-awaited final volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, sees Elizabethan drama as drawn together by a shared need to deal with contradictory pressures from heterogeneous audiences, censorious authorities, profit driven managers, and authors looking for classic status and social esteem. Hunter follows the compromises and contradictions of the Elizabethan repertory, examining how Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists were able to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic transcendence.
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Notes: Possible Source for Lyly's Eubulus, in American Notes & Queries » Read Now
by Philip C. Kolin. 9 pgs.

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...completely the allegorical importance of the name, John Dover Wilson claimed that Lyly borrowed this character from Gnapheus, who himself...Letters was assembled by the...
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Stefano Guazzo and the English Renaissance, 1575-1675 ("John Lyly" begins on p. 78) » Read Now
by John Leon Lievsay. 348 pgs.

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Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England (Chap. 1 "What Thing So Precious as Wit?: John Lyly's Euphues Works" and Chap. 2 "I Would Faine Serve: John Lyly's Career at Court") » Read Now
by Derek B. Alwes. 197 pgs.

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"This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors-John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene-in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England ""poetry"" (in Sidney's"
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Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England (Chap. Five "Singuler Eloquence and Braue Composition: John Lyly, Euphues, and Its Sequel") » Read Now
by Arthur F. Kinney. 529 pgs.

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Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (Chap. 6 "The Confusions of Gallathea: John Lyly as Popular Dramatist") » Read Now
by Kent Cartwright. 321 pgs.

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English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be...
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English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be reconsidered. He proposes that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other.
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