| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages.) |
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Revels plays companion library
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Revels plays companion library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Buy the book: imaginative stories in the book market (1566-78) -- Euph culture: Lyly, Euphues and the market for single-story books (1578-94) -- Whatsoever we present': Lyly's elusive theatre (1583-c.1590) -- This is the first': creating a market for printed plays (1584-94) -- A hopeless Romantic? Lyly, euphuism and a history of non-reading (1632-1905). |
| Summary |
During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. Kesson traces Lyly's work in prose fiction and the theatre, demonstrating previously unrecognised connections between these two forms of entertainment. The final chapter examines how his importance to early modern authorship came to be forgotten in the late seventeenth century and thereafter. This book serves as an introduction to Lyly and early modern liter. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lyly, John, 1554?-1606. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780719088247 0719088240 (OCoLC)872955497 |
| ISBN |
9781781706350 (electronic book) |
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1781706352 (electronic book) |
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9780719088247 (hardback) |
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0719088240 (hardback) |
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9781526101860 |
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1526101866 |
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