John Lyly

Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia

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.