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Lyly

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Lyly
John. ?1554--1606, English dramatist and novelist, noted for his two romances, Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580), written in an elaborate style


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But she certainly saw the plays of Shakespeare's predecessor, the court dramatist John Lyly, who specialized in allegorical pleas for toleration, describing one of his plays as a Trojan horse--a gift with a dangerous message.
``I love having her on the team,'' said Lyly Nguyen, the Bulldogs' No.
With Lyly, Rich, and Greene, Hackett is on firmer ground, although her interpretation of Rich's uneasy praise of Elizabeth is not very convincing.
 
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