Further Reading
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tannenbaum, Samuel A. John Lyly: A Concise Bibliography. New York: S. A. Tannenbaum, 1940, 38 p.
CRITICISM
Best, Michael R. "Lyly's Static Drama." Renaissance Drama n.s. I (1968): 75-86.
Argues that Lyly's plays characteristically contain, "seemingly arbitrarily," both "complex motivation leading to nothing and action without apparent or adequate motivation."
Hunter, G. K. Lyly and Peele. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1968, 52 p.
Studies the influence of Humanism on the work of Lyly and one of his fellow "University Wits."
Huppé, Bernard. "Allegory of Love in Lyly's Court Comedies." ELH 14, No. 2 (June 1947): 93-113.
Examines Lyly's allegorical presentation of love in Sappho and Phao, Endimion, Love's Metamorphosis, and The Woman in the Moon.
Jeffery, Violet M. John Lyly and the Italian Renaissance. Paris: Librarie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1928, 147 p.
Traces the influence of Italian literature on Lyly's works.
Additional coverage of Lyly's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 62.
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