The twenty-four essays on the work of John Lyly selected for this volume reflect current critical concerns with politics and sexuality, class and audience, and also include detailed analysis of his Euphues books and eight plays. The volume includes a biographical summary and critical survey as well as a wide-ranging bibliography.
The twenty-four essays on the work of John Lyly selected for this volume reflect current critical concerns with politics and sexuality, class and audience, and also include detailed analysis of his Euphues books and eight plays. The volume includes a biographical summary and critical survey as well as a wide-ranging bibliography.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Lessons in Wit: Euphues and his Erasmus, Judith Rice Henderson; 'A large occasion of discourse': John Lyly and the art of civil conversation, Catherine Bates; The prose style of John Lyly, Jonas A. Barish; The humanist in the market: gendering exchange and authorship in Lyly's Euphues romances, Joan Pong Linton. Part II Courting the Queen: Elizabethan epideictic drama: praise and blame in the plays of Peele and Lyly, R. Headlam Wells; The monarchy of love in Lyly's 'Endimion', Robert S. Knapp; Lyly's 'Endimion' and 'Midas': the Catholic question in England, David Bevington; 'O unquenchable thirst of gold': Lyly's 'Midas' and the English quest for empire, Annaliese Connolly; The subversion of flattery: the Queen's body in John Lyly's 'Sapho and Phao', Theodora A. Jankowski; Lyly's chimerical vision: witchcraft in 'Endymion', Christine M. Neufeld; 'I would fain serve': John Lyly's career at court, Derek B. Alwes; John Lyly and the politics of language, Leah Scragg. Part III Playing with Desire: John Lyly and the language of play, Jocelyn Powell; The disarming of the knight: comic parody in Lyly's Endymion, Sara Deats; Ovidian myth in Lyly's courtship comedies, Jeff Shulman; The Woman in the Moon: cursed be Utopia, Michael Pincombe; Constructions of female homoerotics in early modern drama, Denise A. Walen; Cross-dressing and John Lyly's 'Gallathea', Christopher Wixson; 'Jack hath not Jill': failed courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare, David Bevington; The transformation of stage courtship, Anne Jennalie Cook. Part IV Performing Lyly: Female roles and the children's companies: Lyly's Pandora in 'The Woman in the Moon', Maurice Charney; Speaking pictures: style and spectacle in Lylyian comedy, Leah Scragg; The confusions of 'Gallathea': John Lyly as popular dramatist, Kent Cartwright; Playing with Lyly: theatrical criticism and non-Shakespearean drama, Kate D. Levin; Name index.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Lessons in Wit: Euphues and his Erasmus, Judith Rice Henderson; 'A large occasion of discourse': John Lyly and the art of civil conversation, Catherine Bates; The prose style of John Lyly, Jonas A. Barish; The humanist in the market: gendering exchange and authorship in Lyly's Euphues romances, Joan Pong Linton. Part II Courting the Queen: Elizabethan epideictic drama: praise and blame in the plays of Peele and Lyly, R. Headlam Wells; The monarchy of love in Lyly's 'Endimion', Robert S. Knapp; Lyly's 'Endimion' and 'Midas': the Catholic question in England, David Bevington; 'O unquenchable thirst of gold': Lyly's 'Midas' and the English quest for empire, Annaliese Connolly; The subversion of flattery: the Queen's body in John Lyly's 'Sapho and Phao', Theodora A. Jankowski; Lyly's chimerical vision: witchcraft in 'Endymion', Christine M. Neufeld; 'I would fain serve': John Lyly's career at court, Derek B. Alwes; John Lyly and the politics of language, Leah Scragg. Part III Playing with Desire: John Lyly and the language of play, Jocelyn Powell; The disarming of the knight: comic parody in Lyly's Endymion, Sara Deats; Ovidian myth in Lyly's courtship comedies, Jeff Shulman; The Woman in the Moon: cursed be Utopia, Michael Pincombe; Constructions of female homoerotics in early modern drama, Denise A. Walen; Cross-dressing and John Lyly's 'Gallathea', Christopher Wixson; 'Jack hath not Jill': failed courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare, David Bevington; The transformation of stage courtship, Anne Jennalie Cook. Part IV Performing Lyly: Female roles and the children's companies: Lyly's Pandora in 'The Woman in the Moon', Maurice Charney; Speaking pictures: style and spectacle in Lylyian comedy, Leah Scragg; The confusions of 'Gallathea': John Lyly as popular dramatist, Kent Cartwright; Playing with Lyly: theatrical criticism and non-Shakespearean drama, Kate D. Levin; Name index.
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