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Lyl·y (l

), John 1554?-1606.

English playwright and novelist who wrote a number of comedies that influenced English drama.

Lyly [ˈlɪlɪ]

(Biographies / Lyly, John (?1554-1606) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: novelist) John. ?1554-1606, English dramatist and novelist, noted for his two romances, Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580), written in an elaborate style See also euphuism

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Lyly - English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)

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Though Huxley doubts that Ros ever encountered the work of the Elizabethan Euphuists, he concludes that Ros "arrived independently at precisely the same state of development as Lyly and his disciples" (137); in any society, Huxley asserts, early attempts at literary language "are always productive of the most elaborate artificiality" (138), and it takes centuries before writers recognize "that art [is] possible without artifice" (138).

Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings by Gorman, Anita G.; Mateer, Leslie Robertson / Mythlore

And what fun it is to stump a friend with a HIPE like LYLY, then tell them they have to add only one more letter.

A wordy digression: the game of HIPE by Winkler, Peter / Word Ways

Subsequent chapters examine complex scenes of instruction in the work of John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, addressing the uneasy relationship between the "repertory of representational conventions" (18) inculcated in a Tudor schoolboy and the agendas of the didactic romancer.

Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance by Kinney, Clare R. / Renaissance Quarterly

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