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John Lyly (1555?–1606)
Lyly, John. An English dramatist; born in 1555?; died in London, 1606. Between 1578 and 1600 he composed several plays, chiefly mythological, among them ‘Endymion,’ ‘Sappho and Phaon,’ and ‘Alexander and Campaspe,’ which were acted by the boys of St. Paul’s School in presence of Queen Elizabeth. But he is noteworthy principally on account of his two books, ‘Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit’ (1579), and ‘Euphues and his England’ (1580), which set a fashion in ingenious prose.