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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 ...
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.
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 Gallathea.. Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly.The first record of the play's performance was at Greenwich Palace on New Year's Day, 1588 where it was performed before Queen Elizabeth I and her court by the Children of St Paul's, a troupe of boy actors.
Satirical print from the pamphlet Greene in Conceit (1598) depicting the deceased Robert Greene (wearing a winding sheet) still writing from beyond the grave. The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities ( Oxford or Cambridge ) and who became ...
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.