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It seems he was the patron to literary associates of Lyly when they decided to leave Oxford. John Lyly later got control over the Blackfriars Theatre in 1580 where kids performed his plays in the presence of the Queen.
Jan 15, 2020 · Galatea and John Lyly: Introduction and Overview In short (very short), John Lyly (c.1554-1606) was one of the star playwrights of the late 1500s. Nearly all his plays were written for the Children of Paul’s, perhaps the most important boy theatre company in early modern London.
Galatea was written in the 1580s by John Lyly, William Shakespeare’s best-selling but now long-forgotten contemporary, inspiring Shakespeare’s comedies from As You Like It to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Jun 9, 2014 · Last week saw the launch of Andy Kesson’s brilliant new book John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship, which makes an eloquent and powerful case for both the quality of Lyly’s work and its importance to early modern literature as we understand it.
Aug 20, 2013 · As I wrote then, we have been working with ShaLT for more than a year to make a series of short films about Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre in London beyond the Globe. The first bundle of these films have now been released, and their focus is the playwright and entrepreneur John Lyly.
Mother Bombie is an Elizabethan era stage 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 dream world of classical allusion and courtly comedy to create a "vulgar realistic play of rustic life" in a contemporaneous England. [1]
A concise introduction to the strange and disappointing life of John Lyly, the first superstar playwright of the Elizabethan era. Includes a discussion of Lyly's use of the style known as "euphuism".
