Until the early 1960s John Lyly's reputation as playwright and prose writer rested largely upon the influence his plays were thought to have exerted upon the work of later dramatists (notably Shakespe...
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C. S. Lewis's remark in English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (1954) about Philip Sidney's Arcadia that "What a man thinks of it ... tests the depth of his sympathy with the six...
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John Lyly
