Galatea: Midas: John LylyPaperback, 1 May 2008

Galatea: Midas: John Lyly
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Date Published
1 May 2008
ISBN-10
071907827X
ISBN-13
9780719078279

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Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly 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. Galatea has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. Midas (1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatising two stories about King Midas in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain (and of any tyrant like him) for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court.

Product Details

Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 May 2008
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
071907827X
ISBN-13:
9780719078279
Language:
English
Location:
Manchester
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Weight:
362.87 gm

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