388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1962, John Lyly marks a shift from the traditional focus on John Lyly as the originator of the strange stylistic craze called Euphuism , and as the dramatist from whose plays Shakespeare deigned to borrow some of his earliest and least attractive comic devices to an author whose works are excellent in themselves. Critics have suggested that an independent reading of Euphues... Read more
Preface Abbreviations 1. Humanism and Courtship 2. Life and Euphues 3. Entertaining the Court of Elizabeth 4. The Plays 5. The Victim of Fashion 6. Lyly and Shakespeare Notes Appendix: The Songs in Lyly’s Plays Index
Biography
G. K. Hunter
