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Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit / ˈjuːfjuːiːz /, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. It was followed by Euphues and his England, registered on 25 July 1579, but not published until Spring of 1580. The name Euphues is derived from Greek ...
Trama: Euphues (il bennato) è un giovane ateniese (s'intenda, uno studente di Oxford) che si reca a Napoli (s'intenda Londra), ove si lascia corrompere dalla licenza della grande città, ruba a un amico l'affetto d'una donna, è a sua volta tradito da questa, e ritorna infine disgustato ad Atene.
Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions.
In English literature: Prose styles, 1550–1600. …was established by John Lyly’s Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), which, with its sequel Euphues and His England (1580), set a fashion for an extreme rhetorical mannerism that came to be known as euphuism.
28 ott 2009 · "The text here printed follows the 1578 edition of the Anatomy of wit and the first 1580 edition of Euphues and his England (as already reprinted by Bond), with occasional additions and variations from the earlier editions and perhaps a half-dozen modern emendations."
3 giorni fa · Euphues is famous for its peculiar style, to which it has given the name ‘Euphuism’. Its principal characteristics are the excessive use of antithesis, which is pursued regardless of sense, and emphasized by alliteration and other devices; and of allusions to historical and mythological personages and to natural history drawn ...
5 set 2023 · Euphues is an Athenian who travels to Naples, where he falls in love with Lucilla, a clever, young woman who is already engaged to Euphues's friend Philatus.
