LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Question
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“95 Theses”
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“Utopia”
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“Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit”
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“Paradise Lost”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lyly was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and went to London about 1576. There he gained fame with the publication of two prose romances, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580), which together made him the most fashionable English writer of the 1580s.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Lyly, (born 1554?, Kent, Eng.-died November 1606, London), author considered to be the first English prose stylist to leave an enduring impression upon the language. As a playwright he also contributed to the development of prose dialogue in English comedy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit /ˈjuːfjuːiːz/, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers’ Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. It was followed by Euphues and his England, registered on 25 July 1579, but not published until Spring of 1580.
Detailed explanation-4: -Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions.