John Lyly

John Lyly (* 1553 in Kent, England; † November 1606 in London) was an English writer of the Renaissance and founder of the euphuism, also a clerk in the household of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. He wrote several dramas and coined in the 1580s, the repertoire of children's theater groups of the Chapel Royal and St. Paul's School.

Life

Lyly was the son of a clergyman and a doctorate in 1575 in Oxford. In 1578 he brought the highly successful prose romance Euphues in London: out or the Anatomy of Wit. The witty style Lyly was here enriched with contradictory, descriptive sentences that influenced than " Euphuismen " many contemporary English writer. The euphuism sparked such a huge fad that in 1627 the poet Drayton said, Lyly taught the English how to talk crazy. It is believed that William Shakespeare Lyly occasional stylistic parodies, such as in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In 1580 he wrote the patriotic episode Euphues and his England; then appeared in the following years, eight comedies, classical and mythological themes. Even as a playwright Lyly was the language cleverly vary, and his masterful Love and intrigue acts thrilled the audience. Lyly raised sure the dramatic level of his time, but soon afterwards he was surpassed by another. After 1590, the favor was after he had enjoyed at court, and in his last years he tried in vain to regain the lost sympathy of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor.

The middle of the 16th century was marked in England by political and religious turmoil that interfered with the process of Verhöfischung first. Queen Elizabeth I was much stronger than her father carried by the less polished squires and businessmen of the City of London. These fought with considerable cultural inferiority feelings toward the finesse of Italian, French and Spanish.

Quotes

• Fish and Guests in three days are stale (fish and guests after three days, no longer fresh), Gallathea, 1583-85
• The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted, ( The sun shines on the dunghill, and spotted not there)
• Assure yourself did Damon to his Pythias, Pylades to his Orestes, Titus to his Gysippus, Theseus to his Pyrothus, Scipio to his Laelius, which never found more faithful than Euphues wants to be his Philautus ( Be assured that Damon his Pythias, Pylades his Orestes, Titus his Gysippus, Theseus his Pyrothus, Scipio was his Laelius, never found to be true, as it will be his Euphues Philautus ), Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, 1579