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6 giorni fa · The playwright John Lyly was probably the first to leverage the queer theatricality of the boy-playing-a-girl-disguised-as-a-boy trope, in which the real body of the young male actor was ...
20 set 2024 · The University Wits included Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, John Lyly, and Thomas Nashe, among others. Each of these writers made unique contributions to English drama and prose. We will explore the rise of the University Wits, delve into the lives and works of key figures like Marlowe and Greene, and examine their lasting ...
8 ott 2024 · This chapter explores Shakespeare’s relationship with his Elizabethan predecessor, John Lyly, who established several precedents for Shakespeare’s plays, particularly genre-bending elements of plays often labelled comedies.
7 ott 2024 · For this his models include the dramatists Robert Greene and John Lyly, along with Thomas Nashe. The result is a genre recognizably and distinctively Shakespearean, even if he learned a lot from Greene and Lyly: the romantic comedy.
1 giorno fa · Between 1564 and 1599, 33 works were dedicated to him, including works by Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday. [247] In 1583 he bought the sublease of the first Blackfriars Theatre and gave it to the poet-playwright Lyly, who operated it for a season under Oxford's patronage.
28 set 2024 · Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur ...
1 giorno fa · John Lyly says in the prologue to his Endymion (1591), "There liveth none under the sunne, that knows what to make of the man in the moone." [7] In Norse mythology, Máni is the male personification of the Moon who crosses the sky in a horse-drawn carriage. He is continually pursued by the Great Wolf Hati who catches him at Ragnarök.
