An anthology of Elizabethan prose fiction
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An anthology of Elizabethan prose fiction
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 1998
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [xxix]-xxxiii
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. The Adventures of Master F. J. is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In Euphues John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. Pandosto was Shakespeare's source for The Winter's Tale, but Greene's is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. The Unfortunate Traveller marks the peak of Nashe's gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. Jack of Newbury dedicated to 'All famous cloth Workers in England', sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue.
Table of Contents
- George Gascoigne: The Adventure of Master F. J.
- John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
- Robert Greene: Pandosto: The Triumph of Time
- Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller
- Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newbury
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