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    being 'the father of English comedy'. John Lyly was born in Kent, England, c. 1553–4, the eldest son of Peter Lyly and his wife, Jane Burgh (or Brough)...
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    The Woman in the Moon (category Plays by John Lyly)
    stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. Its unique status in that playwright's dramatic canon – it is the only play Lyly wrote in blank verse rather than...
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    Endymion (play) (category Plays by John Lyly)
    Endymion, the Man in the Moon is an Elizabethan era comedy by John Lyly, written circa 1588. The action of the play centers around a young courtier, Endymion...
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    era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. It is arguably the most overtly and extensively allegorical of Lyly's allegorical plays. Midas was entered...
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    Gallathea (category Plays by John Lyly)
    Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The first record of the play's performance was at Greenwich Palace on New...
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  • Lockhart John Greenleaf Whittier John Reynolds John Heywood John Keats John Keble John Kenyon John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley John Lydgate John Lyly John...
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    1583, who then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly. As proprietor of the playhouse, Lyly installed Evans as the manager of the new company of...
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  • 1136 as Thiên Tộ, the first son of Thần Tông and Lê Thị, the Emperor and Empress of Vietnam. Initially Thiên Tộ wasn't chosen as the dynasty...
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  • mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing...
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    Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit /ˈjuːfjuːiːz/, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published...
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    railing style, and accordingly certain writers of ready wit, among them John Lyly, Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene, were secretly commissioned to answer...
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    John (1998). The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-863144-6. Timothy, Rasinski (2017-03-01). "Suffix -ly"...
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    with a Preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward. (1911). Ward, Mary Augusta (1911). "Lyly, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). pp. 159–162. (1917). Six...
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    Love's Metamorphosis (category Plays by John Lyly)
    is an Elizabethan era stage play, an allegorical pastoral written by John Lyly. It was the last of his dramas to be printed. Love's Metamorphosis was...
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  • (burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley...
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    Campaspe (play) (category Plays by John Lyly)
    Campaspe is an Elizabethan era stage play, a prose comedy by John Lyly based on the story of the love triangle between Campaspe, a Theban captive, the...
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  • Martin Frobisher John Florio – First Fruits Jaroš Griemiller – Rosarium philosophorum Gabriel Harvey – Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae John Lyly – Euphues: the...
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    Mother Bombie (category Plays by John Lyly)
    play, a comedy by John Lyly. It is unique in Lyly's dramatic canon as a work of farce and social realism; in Mother Bombie alone, Lyly departs from his...
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    Duloxetine (redirect from LY-227942)
    (SAMe) GABAkine neurosteroids (brexanolone, zuranolone) Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort) Oxitriptan (5-HTP) Rubidium chloride (RbCl) Tryptophan...
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    The Maid's Metamorphosis (category Plays by John Lyly)
    the play to John Lyly. The play is written in rhymed couplets, a rather dated style for 1600; and it bears obvious resemblances to Lyly's type of drama...
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