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 audienceand 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 thereader accustomed to romantic conventions. The Unfortunate Traveller marks the peak of Nashe's gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative withmock-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.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954057-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 464
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés