being 'the father of English comedy'. John Lyly was born in Kent, England, c. 1553–4, the eldest son of Peter Lyly and his wife, Jane Burgh (or Brough)...

mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing...

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit /ˈjuːfjuːiːz/, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published...

Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes...

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...

Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898 "Campaspe" John Lyly: "Cupid and my Campaspe..." John Lyly: A Moste Excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe,...

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...

is an Elizabethan era stage play, an allegorical pastoral written by John Lyly. It was the last of his dramas to be printed. Love's Metamorphosis was...

(burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley...

era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. It is arguably the most overtly and extensively allegorical of Lyly's allegorical plays. Midas was entered...

body, which below on earth Give rise to talk of Cain in fabling quaint? John Lyly says in the prologue to his Endymion (1591), "There liveth none under...

Martin Frobisher John Florio – First Fruits Jaroš Griemiller – Rosarium philosophorum Gabriel Harvey – Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae John Lyly – Euphues: the...

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...

Campaspe is an Elizabethan era stage play, a prose comedy by John Lyly based on the story of the love triangle between Campaspe, a Theban captive, the...

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...

William Baldwin, Beware the Cat, (written 1553, published 1570, 1584) John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580)...

Thai Police Sapho and Phao, British Elizibethan era comedy stage play by John Lyly This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Phao...

The Rise of Endymion, a sequel to the above novel Endymion (play), by John Lyly Endymion, a sculpture by Antonio Canova A Certain Magical Index: The Movie...

plus Marlowe's Hero and Leander (1598), and the Six Court Comedies of John Lyly (1632). He himself translated Ars Aulica, or the Courtier's Arte (1607)...

and Phao is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. One of Lyly's earliest dramas, it was likely the first that the playwright devoted...

1583, who then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly. As proprietor of the playhouse, Lyly installed Evans as the manager of the new company of...

Renaissance drama, including works by William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, John Lyly, and Thomas Nashe. Burby ("sometimes confused with Cuthbert Burbage,"...

was never found more faithful than Euphues will be to his Philautus. (John Lyly, Euphues) A prozeugma, synezeugmenon, or praeiunctio is a zeugma whose...

Proverbs (Oxford University Press 2015), p. 202 1826 printing, page 422 John Lyly, Euphues and His England, chapter "Euphues to Philautos", p. 471 in Edward...

1585 book by Miguel de Cervantes Gallathea or Galatea, 1588 play by John Lyly Die schöne Galathée, 1865 operetta by Franz von Suppé Pygmalion and Galatea...

Eccles 1933, p. 416. Letters from Lyly to Robert Cecil, 22 December 1597 and 27 February 1601, and letter from Lyly to Queen Elizabeth I, probably in...

Martin Frobisher John Florio – First Fruits Jaroš Griemiller – Rosarium philosophorum Gabriel Harvey – Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae John Lyly – Euphues: the...

(2009), "Euphues and the Anatomy of Influence: John Lyly, Harold Bloom, James Olney, and the Construction of John Kennedy Toole's Ignatius", Mississippi Quarterly...

producer primarily responsible (apparently with the active collaboration of John Lyly) for organising and co-ordinating the activities of the Children of the...

Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. She also shows a knowledge of stage plays by John Lyly and Samuel Daniel. The work of Samuel Daniel informs her Masque, a theatrical...