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Lyly
[ lil-ee ]
noun
- John, 1554?–1606, English writer of romances and plays.
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Again, in Lyly's "Euphues," p. 33: "That far fet and deere bought, is good for ladies."
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He was always averse to affectation, literary or otherwise, and in Elegy viij deliberately condemns Lyly's fantastic style.
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Scott, however, had not studied Lyly sufficiently, and Sir Piercie raves bombastically rather than talks euphuistically.
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He published an edition of the dramatic works of Lyly in 1856.
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Today we still read the work of the initiators, Lyly, Greene, Kyd.
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