Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

by John Lyly, Leah Scragg (Editor)

John Lyly was the principal court dramatist of the 1580s and author of the period's best-selling prose work, Euphues. Three texts are included in this edition for both specialist and non-specialist readers: an extract from Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit; and the plays, Campaspe and Gallathea.

216 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

(c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606) An English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.

Reviews

[Anastasia]

Campaspe - a key to understanding the context of this playful comedy is knowing that it was written for and performed by students (which at that time comprised only young males) to teach grammar and rhetoric.

[Jake Maguire]

Some Oxfordian Shakespeare biographers and scholars believe this work to actually be the 17th Earl of Oxford Edward De Vere. I believe that theory to be very convincing.