Munday, Anthony - Jack Stillinger (essay date 1963)

Jack Stillinger (essay date 1963)

SOURCE: Stillinger, Jack. Introduction to Zelauto: The Fountaine of Fame, 1580, edited by Jack Stillinger, pp. vii-xxix. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1963.

[In the following excerpt, Stillinger provides a thorough examination of Munday's Zelauto, assessing the nature of the work and its merit.]

Anthony Munday's single original contribution to Elizabethan prose fiction appeared in 1580 with the following title page:

ZELAVTO. / THE FOVN- / taine of Fame. / Erected in an Orcharde / of Amorous Aduentures. / Containing / A Delicate Disputation, gallantly / discoursed betweene two noble / Gentlemen of Italye. / Giuen for a freendly entertainment / to Euphues, at his late ariuall / into England. / By A. M. Seruaunt to the Right Ho- / nourable the Earle of Oxenford. / Honos alit Artes. / Imprinted at...

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