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John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554, the eldest son of Peter Lyly and his wife, Jane Burgh (or Brough), of Burgh Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire.He was probably born either in Rochester, where his father is recorded as a notary public in 1550, or in Canterbury, where his father was the Registrar for the Archbishop, Matthew Parker, and where the births of his siblings are recorded between 1562 and 1568.His grandfather was William Lily, the grammarian and the first High (or ...
John Lyly was an author considered to be the first English prose stylist to leave an enduring impression upon the language. As a playwright, he also contributed to the development of prose dialogue in English comedy. Lyly was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and went to London about 1576.
Name: John Lyly. Born: 1553 / 1554, Kent, England. Died: c. 20 November 1606. Buried: 20 November 1606, St. Bartholomew the Less, London. Life of John Lyly. John Lyly was the first superstar dramatist of the Elizabethan era, though his brilliance shone more like a shooting star than the sun.. Born in about 1553 in Kent, Lyly earned a B.A. from Magdalen College in Oxford, and an M.A. from Oxford, although as the 17 th century antiquarian Antony Wood wrote, Lyly did “in a manner neglect ...
Title page of Endymion, the Man in the Moon.. Endymion, the Man in the Moon is an Elizabethan era comedy by John Lyly, written circa 1588. The action of the play centers around a young courtier, Endymion, who is sent into an endless slumber by Tellus, his former lover, because he has spurned her to worship the ageless Queen Cynthia.
Aug 31, 2015 · Introduction. John Lyly (b. 1554–d. 1606) is often famed for his precarious hold on fame; he was a contemporary of Shakespeare and a literary celebrity in his own lifetime, but he has fallen, by comparison, into considerable obscurity.
Dec 5, 2012 · Today John Lyly is the most neglected, underappreciated and misunderstood Elizabethan playwright. Lyly’s understanding of the world, and of language, came out of his own personal heritage which he honoured throughout his uneven career. He was the grandson of William Lyly (also spelled as Lily and ...
Jun 8, 2018 · John Lyly. BORN: C. 1552, England DIED: 1606, England NATIONALITY: British GENRE: Fiction, drama, nonfiction MAJOR WORKS: Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit (1578) Euphues and His England (1580) Pappe with an Hatchet, Alias, a Fig for my Godson (1589) Campaspe (1583–1584) Overview. Together with Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly was one of the most important pre-Shakespearean playwrights of the Elizabethan stage. Lyly was a member of the school of writing called the “University Wits,” and the ...
John Lyly was the first English dramatic superstar of the Elizabethan era. His famous Euphues novels and early plays introduced a highly-affected style of writing which became, for a brief time, wildly fashionable in court circles. Read more about John Lyly here. The Annotated Plays of John Lyly: Campaspe (1580-81) Sapho and Phao (1582-84) Love’s Metamorphosis… Continue Reading The Plays of John Lyly
John Lyly (1553 or 1554 – November 1606; also spelled Lilly, Lylie, Lylly) was an English writer, dramatist, courtier, and parliamentarian. he was best known during his lifetime for his two books Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and its sequel Euphues and His England (1580).
Letters and Documents. There are eight notable autograph manuscripts by Lyly, all of them letters (*LyJ 5-13). Two other letters by him which do not survive in the originals, both petitions to Queen Elizabeth, possibly written in 1598 and 1601, enjoyed, posthumously, the most extensive circulation in manuscript of any Elizabethan-Jacobean dramatist (LyJ 14-59).
