Photo: Facsimile of a MS. in Hatfield Library; included in “The Complete Works of John Lyly”, edited by R. Warwick Bond, Oxford, 1902 (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

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1554–1606 · English playwright, poet and dramatist (c.1553/4-1606)

Also known as: John Lilly, John Lily, John Lylie, John Lylly, Джон Лили, 존 릴리

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Robert Greene1558–1592
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Wrote euphuistic prose romances like Pandosto and Menaphon alongside Elizabethan comedies. (AI reason)
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Thomas Lodge1558–1625
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His pastoral romance Rosalynde imitates the ornate euphuistic prose style. (AI reason)
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Philip Sidney1554–1586
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The Arcadia offers elaborate courtly prose romance with pastoral and rhetorical artifice. (AI reason)
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George Peele1556–1596
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Courtly mythological drama such as The Arraignment of Paris shares Lyly's allegorical court entertainment mode. (AI reason)
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Christopher Marlowe1564–1593
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Fellow University Wit whose Dido, Queen of Carthage draws on classical myth for boy-company performance. (AI reason)
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Thomas Nashe1567–1601
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Exuberant Elizabethan prose stylist engaging with euphuism and rhetorical display. (AI reason)
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William Shakespeare1564–1616
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Early romantic comedies like Love's Labour's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream echo Lyly's witty courtly dialogue and mythic fantasy. (AI reason)
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Edmund Spenser1552–1599
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Allegorical, pastoral and mythological works flattering the Elizabethan court. (AI reason)
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George Pettie1548–1589
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A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure anticipates euphuistic patterned prose tales. (AI reason)
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Barnabe Rich1542–1617
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Elizabethan prose romances and novellas in a courtly, moralizing vein. (AI reason)
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Known works

Euphues
Gallathea and Midas
Loves metamorphosis
Mother Bombie
Campaspe ; Sappho and Phao