John Lyly – Endymion the Man in the Moon

Endymion, the Man in the Moon is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The play provides a vivid example of the cult of flattery in the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, and has been called „without doubt, the boldest in conception and the most beautiful in execution of all Lyly’s plays.”

This edition of Lyly s Endymion has been prepared because, something more than a year ago, the editor fell the need of an inexpensive edition of some representative play of the court drani Litist which could be used by classes in the Elizabethan drama. The text was soon ready, but when the time came to write the introduction the editor found much contradiction in regard to John Lyly slife ;much material bearing on it that liad been, apparently, but rapidly read for its evidence in regard to him ;and many years of his life left blank. It seemed, therefore, worth while to try to write an account of Lyly scareer which should make use of all the known material in regard to him, and should, at the same time, clear away, if possible, the confusion that contradictory statements of previous biographers had caused.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don’t occur in the book.)   źródło opisu: Forgotten Books, 2012 źródło okładki: http://www.forgottenbooks.org/