Recent studies in John Lyly (1990-2010)

Title: Recent studies in John Lyly (1990-2010)
Creator: Lunney, Ruth
Relation: English Literary Renaissance Vol. 41, Issue 3, p. 529-554
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2011.01095.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: This essay surveys scholarship on John Lyly from 1990 through 2010, updating that of Kevin Donovan, ELR 22 (1992), 435–50. Lyly's works still appeal to critics as representing sixteenth-century culture but also, increasingly, as relevant to present-day concerns. Gender studies have flourished in this period, with particular attention to Gallathea and the two Euphues volumes. Other major strands in recent studies have included court politics and royal authority, witches and magic, the humanist heritage, the influence of Ovid, narrative strategies, and the socioeconomic implications of euphuism. Notions of the plays’ theatricality have been revised, with more attention also paid to dramaturgy and staging. Lyly studies will continue to benefit from the publication since 1991 of the new Revels editions of prose and plays.
Subject: John Lyly; scholarship; literature; critics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062922
Identifier: uon:17173
Identifier: ISSN:0013-8312
Language: eng
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