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John Lyly was born in Kent, England, c. 1553–4, 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 ...
Lyly adopted the name from Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues as a type of student who is "apte by goodness of witte, and appliable by readiness of will, to learning, hauving all other qualities of the mind and parts of the body, that must an other day serue learning, not troubled, mangled, and halfed, but sound, whole ...
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. [1] 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.
Title page of The Woman in the Moon.. The Woman in the Moon is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly.Its unique status in that playwright's dramatic canon – it is the only play Lyly wrote in blank verse rather than prose – has presented scholars and critics with a range of questions and problems.
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Sapho and Phao is known to have been performed at Court before Queen Elizabeth, probably on 3 March 1584; it was also staged at the first Blackfriars Theatre.In these respects it resembles Campaspe, Lyly's other early play; and like Campaspe, sources conflict on the identity of the acting company that performed the work.
5. "Going to the mountains is going home." 6. "The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." 7. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in ...
Title page of the first edition of Mother Bombie (1594).. Mother Bombie is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly.It is unique in Lyly's dramatic canon as a work of farce and social realism; in Mother Bombie alone, Lyly departs from his dream world of classical allusion and courtly comedy to create a "vulgar realistic play of rustic life" in a contemporaneous England.