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, and more especially of the plays, reveals an attractive
delicacy of wit and a refined power of linguistic filigree quite
independent of his influence on others or his capacity to
illustrate the curious tastes of our forefathers. The eight plays -
his most mature artistic achievements - are analysed in detail to
bring out their relation to the tradition of court drama. A final
chapter compares Lyly and Shakespeare in an attempt to show in
operation the different traditions which the book has discussed.
This book will appeal to students of English literature, drama and
literary history.
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