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    Euphues and his England, registered on 25 July 1579, but not published until Spring of 1580. The name Euphues is derived from Greek ευφυής (euphuēs)...
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  • I's reign. "Euphues" (εὐφυής) is the Greek for "graceful, witty". John Lyly published the works Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England...
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    best known during his lifetime for his two books Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and its sequel Euphues and His England (1580), but is perhaps best remembered...
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  • reprinted. The name Euphues is taken from a work by John Lyly, itself taken from Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues as a type of student...
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    Dendrobium trachyphyllum Schltr. Dendrobium coccinellum Ridl. Dendrobium euphues Ridl. Dendrobium laetum Schltr. Dendrobium atromarginatum J.J.Sm. Dendrobium...
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  • to: "All is fair in love and war", a proverb attributed to John Lyly's Euphues All Is Fair in Love and War (album), an album by Blessed by a Broken Heart...
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  • topography (born 1500) John Lyly (28 June 2003). John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition...
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  • his Laelius, was never found more faithful than Euphues will be to his Philautus. (John Lyly, Euphues) A prozeugma, synezeugmenon, or praeiunctio is a...
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  • Cat, (written 1553, published 1570, 1584) John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) Philip Sidney, The Countess of...
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  • Press 2015), p. 202 1826 printing, page 422 John Lyly, Euphues and His England, chapter "Euphues to Philautos", p. 471 in Edward Arber's printing of the...
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    at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578. During the 1590s...
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    composition of the play was John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, published in 1578. Like The Governor, Euphues presents two close friends who are inseparable...
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  • An artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking. Named from Euphues (1579) the prose romance by John Lyly. "Is it not far better to abhor sins...
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    playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580). Lyly's mannered literary style...
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    direct and immediate source of As You Like It is Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, written 1586–87 and first published in 1590. Lodge's story...
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  • him dearly." W.L. Rushton argues that this is derived from John Lyly's Euphues. If Shakespeare had not taken this from Lyly, then he and Lyly both derived...
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  • philosophorum Gabriel Harvey – Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae John Lyly – Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit 1579 Stephen Gosson – The Schoole of Abuse Thomas Lodge...
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  • use of antithesis, set the fashion which was to culminate in John Lyly's Euphues. His next work was The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570), a translation...
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  • Dunces'", Studies in Medievalism, 15: 77–100. Rudnicki, Robert (2009), "Euphues and the Anatomy of Influence: John Lyly, Harold Bloom, James Olney, and...
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  • Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature. She wrote her master's thesis on Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly (1578). While attending the University...
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  • Franco – Lettere familiari a diversi Robert Greene – Mamillia John Lyly – Euphues and his England Michel de Montaigne – Essais Anthony Munday – Zelauto Robert...
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  • English, euphuism – a 16th-century tendency named after the character Euphues who appears in two works by its chief practitioner John Lyly – shows similar...
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    Lester and Arabella Dulcie. Rosalynde is the heroine of Thomas Lodge's Euphues' Golden Legacy. In George Fletcher's quoted writings: “'Faire Rosalind'...
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  • (Weyer) 1578 in literature – Compendium of Materia Medica (Li Shizhen), Euphues (Lyly), History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Jean de Léry) 1579 in...
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  • London: Collins. p. 269. Huxley, Aldous, On the Margin, 1923 (essay "Euphues Redivivus" accessed here [1] 21 November 2011) "Rhetorical Criticism: Theory...
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    character Euphues was referred to in Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde, which was the source book for William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Euphues was also referred...
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  • "The times change, and we change with them." It appears in John Lyly's Euphues I 276, 1578, as cited in Dictionary of Proverbs, by George Latimer Apperson...
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  • fair in love and war", a proverb found in John Lyly's 16th-century book Euphues that is commonly used to justify cheating. The episode features three different...
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    from the Ardennes forest in Thomas Lodge's prose romance Rosalynde; Or, Euphues' Golden Legacy and the real forest (both as it was when the play was written...
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    and in fact the publication of the Arcadia, eleven years after that of Euphues, marks the beginning of the downfall of the popularity of the latter."...
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