John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier

by G K Hunter

First published in 1962, John Lyly marks a shift from the traditional focus on John Lyly as the originator of the strange stylistic craze called Euphuism, and as the dramatist from whose plays Shakespeare deigned to borrow some of his earliest and least attractive comic devices to an author whose works are excellent in themselves. Critics have suggested that an independent reading of Euphues, and more especially of the plays,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032267364
• ISBN13: 9781032267364
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages