Euphues The Anatomy Of Wit

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"Of primary importance for students of Renaissance prose, this edition complements the on-going publication of Lyly's dramatic works in The Revels Plays. The introduction includes a discussion of the relationship between the dramatic and non-dramatic work locating Lyly's plays in a wider context."--BOOK JACKET.

Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580

A didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. ... Lyly's mannered style is characterized by parallel arrangements and periphrases. The style of these novels gave rise to the term euphuism.

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. It was followed by Euphues and his England, registered on 24 July 1579, but not published until Spring of 1580. The name Euphues is derived from Greek meaning "graceful, witty." Lyly adopted the name from Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues as a type of student who is "apte by goodnes of witte, and appliable by readines of will, to learning, hauving all other qualities of the mind and partes of the bodie, that must an other day serue learning, not trobled, mangled, and halfed, but sounde, whole, full & hable to do their office" (194). Lyly's mannered style is characterized by parallel arrangements and periphrases.The style of these novels gave rise to the term euphuism.The Anatomy of Wit and His England is a novel higly recommended to read .