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- Title
ANGLING FOR ANSWERS: LOOKING FOR LYLY IN THE 1590S.
- Authors
SCRAGG, LEAH
- Abstract
Following the work of G. K. Hunter, Lyly's career in the 1590s continues to be constructed, for all the efforts of recent scholars, as a period of neglect and failure consequent on an ill-judged participation in the Martin Marprelate debate and the closure of Paul's Boys. The entertainment at Chiswick, performed in the course of the Queen's summer progress, supplies firm evidence, however, that Lyly was engaged in the mounting of entertainments for the monarch as late as 1602, and though its importance as a witness was recognized as early as 1953, the chain of information that may be deduced from it has yet to be sufficiently explored. Reading backwards from the welcoming speech to the Queen at Chiswick in 1602, to the ut pictura poesis debate at Mitcham in 1598, and the angling device at Cowdray in 1591, it is possible to construct a narrative of Lyly's career very different from that predicated by Hunter, and more firmly aligned with both the findings of recent critics and the assertions of the writer himself.
- Subjects
HUNTER, G. K.; MARPRELATE, Martin, ca. 16th century; MARPRELATE controversy; READING; CRITICS
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2016, Vol 67, Issue 279, p237
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgv094