Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might
be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a
world engaged in a process of change, the characters find
themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that
speak directly to contemporary experience and twenty-first-century
critical concerns. Same-sex relationships, shifts of authority, and
the destabilization of meaning all lend the play a surprising
modernity, making it at once the most accessible of Lyly's plays
and the one most frequently performed today.
Designed for the student reader, Leah Scragg's edition offers a
range of perspectives on the work. An extensive introduction
locates the play in the context of the Elizabethan court, opening a
window onto a kind of drama very different from that of more
familiar sixteenth-century writers, such as Marlowe and
Shakespeare. The latter's indebtedness to the play is fully
documented, while detailed critical and performance histories allow
an insight into the work's susceptibility to reinterpretation.
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