Selected Prose and Dramatic Work: John Lyly

by John Lyly

This work contains three texts edited from first editions, including a substantial extract from The Anatomy of Wit as well as the plays Campaspe , the first significant comedy of the English Renaissance, and Gallathea , which has been said to have exercised a considerable influence on Shakespeare. The extract from The Anatomy of Wit is the first modern spelling edition of the 1578 text.

190 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

(c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606) An English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.

Reviews

[Anastasia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Campaspe - a key to understanding the context of this playful comedy is knowing that it was written for and performed by students (which at that time comprised only young males) to teach grammar and rhetoric.

[Jake Maguire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some Oxfordian Shakespeare biographers and scholars believe this work to actually be the 17th Earl of Oxford Edward De Vere. I believe that theory to be very convincing.