Galatea and Midas John Lyly

Name: Galatea and Midas John Lyly
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ISBN: 9780719078279

ISBN-10: 071907827X

ISBN-13: 9780719078279

Edition: 2000

Authors: George Hunter, Stephen Bevington, George K. Hunter, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay

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GalateaandMidasare two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Shortly after his early success with Campaspe and Sappho and Phao in 1583-4, he took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year "the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country" be sacrificed to a sea-monster. Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man.Galateahas become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years.Midas(1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatizing two stories about…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.43" wide x 9.45" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



General Editors' preface


Preface


Abbreviations


Galatea: Introduction


Galatea


Midas: Introduction


Midas


Longer notes


Index