1. Click to edit Master subtitle style John Lyly 1554-1606 By: Katherine Pepler

2. *His Childhood *Johns Education *Just being Lyly *Performing Plays *Days with the Queen *Lyly the Author * Lylys Style * The Poem: Card * Handing a Helpi *Rejoicing His Birth *Works Cited Table of Contents 3. John Lyly and His Childhood John Lyly was born in Kent, England. They dont know the exact year that he was born they know it was either 1553 or 1554. He grew up in Canterbury where he lived with his father and grandfather where well known. His father was the Register of (Picture is of the town Canterbury.) 4. Scholars say that John Lyly might have attended Kings academy for grammar and high school. John went further than high school he received his BA and MA at the Magdalen College Oxford and started when he was only 16. At these institutions he studied the general material. He choose to study play writing and poetry. Johns Education 5. After Lyly received his degrees he moved to London to begin his life as a writer. Most people would say that Lyly style of writing was popular romance, a renaissance poet and a play writer. He found that woman loved his plays because they would relate to the love and affection in them. Lyly found instant popularity with the writing of his book Euphues, or the Anatomy of W (1578). A journal like the one John Lyly took notes in to put together thoughts for plays and books. Just being Lyly 6. With in gates like the ones in these pictures John Lyly ,was accompanied by children of the theatre and preformed plays for the queen. The children of the Revels. The plays were written to catch the eyes of ladies and were still able to keep the men of the audiences attention. Most his plays were about war, peace, love and mostly a happy conclusion. In John Lyly plays, he set the bar for this time he pushed play writing to the next level with his characters and his vivid imagination to the scenes. If you where reading one of his plays you could close your eyes and feel like you where on the front row watching it. Performing Plays 7. Lyly and the children of Revels spent many times in front of the queen performing many plays. Below are covers of 2 books filled with plays/ different acts that where preformed in front the Queen her self Queen Elizabeth I. This was a big privilege for Lyly. Even though he was famous before performing these plays it allowed him to see how the audience reacted to the different parts of his plays. Days with the Queen 8. John Lyly was a writer of books and plays as learned before but he pretty much received instant fame with his book Euphuism (1579) Many people saw Lyly as the Euphuist, witty, comical facetiously quick and unparalleled. (Wilson) He has written many different works some even came from material written from him but published after he had passed away. His Plays Campaspe (1584) Sappho and Phao (1584) Midas (1589) Endcmion (1591) Galathea(1592) and others Love's Metamorphosis (1601) Other works Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) Ephesus and His England(1580) Pappe With an Hatchet (1589) The Complete Works of John Lyly (1902) Twelve Songs from the Plays of John Lyly (1930) John Lyly the Author 9. Lyly won over the ears and hearts of many women and possibly some males as well, one of his well known poems is Cards and Kisses. In this poem he shows why people have fallen for his writing besides his romance theme. He uses great descriptive words where the reader can paint a picture using the words alone. Lyly has made many people happy with his plays and books. Cards for Kisses shows just how Lyly felt about a certain person giving up all for the one you love and expecting nothing in return. Cards for Kisses is just one example of his fine writing style. Lylys Style 10. CUPID and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses--Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes-- She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me? John Lyly Cards and Kisses 11. John Lyly became an author a decade before the famous William Shakespeare. Some historians say that Shakespeare took Lylys style of writing to the next level. If Lyly would have been alive longer he would have had been more successful and maybe have as many works as Shakespeare. Lyly like most poets/ authors of this time called the Elizabethan time, he would have sold more in his life. Since he did pass away his success came after he passed away. People found some of his work after he was gone and published it. Lyly and Shakespeare had a lot more in common than many other writers of the time. One big item is they both acted out plays for the queen, and brought new life to the plays. Handing a Helping Hand and not realizing it 12. John Lyly was a wise man that wrote many successful plays and books. With all of the things Lyly encountered in his life with receiving his college degrees and such a young age to pretty much instant fame from writing a book. To have children act out his plays in front of the Queen. To start the era that the big time William Shakespeare would write in. Never would have guessed a man from Kent, England would become this famous. I guess people from small towns really do come famous and make history, he was the start to so many great poets and authors and for that alone he gets a vote in my book for being a go getter and following his dreams out of college instead of following the crowd. What would be of the Elizabethan Era if Lyly never would have wrote? Only the past knows the answer to that question I know I would not be able to read my favorite author if it was not for him. Rejoicing His Birth 13. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lylybio.htm http://www.theatredatabase.com/16th_century/john_lyly.html http://www.guilford.edu/classes/engl/hhayton/courses/web_pages/boys_acting/boys/historytimeline2.ht http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/John_Lyly Bromley, James M. "The only way to be mad, is to bee constant": Defending Heterosexual Nonmonogamy in John Lylys Loves Metamorphosis." Studies in Philology 106.4 (2009): 420-440. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Cartwright, Kent "The confusion of Gallagher: John Lily as populardramatist" Comparative Drama 1998: 2 Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. "John Lily." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6tg Edition (2010): 1.Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. Nov. 2010. 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