John Lyly

John Lyly's 1601 play Love's Metamorphosis speaks of those who "have eaten so much of Wake Robin, that they cannot sleep for love" while in Dorset, as recently as the 1930s, young girls believed they could fall pregnant through touching the flower.

The power of spring flowers 2011

Their comic routines of sassing their elders are dramaturgical effects that Shakespeare learned at least in part from the plays of John Lyly, whose theatrical successes in the 1580s (Campaspe, Sappho and Phao, Galatea, Endymion) were written for acting companies made up almost entirely of boy actors.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The Tempest is, as it were, Shakespeare's affirmation, in answer to his critics, that his plays choose to be what John Lyly called a 'mingle-mangle', mixing clowns and kings, fairies and mortals, the divine and the human.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

John Lyly had been secretary to the Earl of Oxford in the 1580s; Edmund Spenser served as secretary to Lord Grey in the

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

In 1579 John Lyly published his curious romance, "Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit," a work which attained a great popularity, and made the word

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Born in Kent in 1554, John Lyly studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and received the degree of Master of Arts. Not a very diligent scholar, he disliked the "crabbed studies" of logic and philosophy,

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Comedy is found in the plays of John Lyly preceding his _Euphues_.

England under the Tudors

Euphues is John Lyly, and John Lyly's creed was substantially that of the well-known hero of a now forgotten comic opera, 'I am an

The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

John Lyly, writing for these choir boys, developed this type of entertainment into a distinct species of comedy.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

Such are the words in which John Lyly, the Euphuist, characterized his own time, and they were the words of one who expressed in his own writings the tendency to fanciful exaggeration, which was so strong among the men about him.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman