Andy Kesson

John Lyly and early modern authorship (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 literature for students, but its argument for the central importance of Lyly himself and 1580s literary culture makes it a significant contribution to current scholarly debate. Its investigation of the relationship between performance and print means that it will be of interest to those who care about, watch or work in early modern performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101853
• Artikelnr.: 48795034

Autorenporträt

Andy Kesson is a Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Roehampton

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: our Lyly? Part one: Lyly and prose fiction 1. Buy the book: imaginative stories in the book market (1566
1578) 2. Euph culture: Lyly, Euphues and the market for single
story books (1578
1594) Part two: Lyly, performance and print 3. 'Whatsoever we present': Lyly's elusive theatre (1583
c.1590) 4. 'This is the first': creating a market for printed plays (1584
1594) Part three: euphuism and reception 5. A hopeless Romantic? Lyly, euphuism and a history of non
reading (1632
1905) Conclusion: go dare Bibliography Index