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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.
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This volume fills a gap for those of us who have some acquaintance with Elizabethan drama and poetry but have not explored the prose fiction. Begin with reading the introduction, which is short but unusually pertinent among introductions to selections. It explains the significance of style, or 'discourse' in prose of the period that helpfully suggests why the reader has to readjust their expectation and attention span to appreciate the intention and craft of each writer - both rather different from our experiences of these aspects of modern prose fiction. The introduction then offers succinct but well-judged introductions to each piece. As to the selection itself, inevitably small from a wide choice, it is intelligently made to introduce the reader to a range of work. Enriching in its own right, reading these works, hearing the voices in them too, will also enrich the experience of reading more widely in Elizabethan literature and experiencing the drama in performance. The volume is also nice to handle and eminently portable.
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So often when we think about Elizabethan literature we think about drama (especially, of course, Shakespeare), or poetry (Sidney, Spenser). This collection is therefore a nice antidote focusing on less well known prose works. Salzman's trilogy of collections for Oxford (An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Fiction (Oxford World's Classics), Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 (Oxford World's Classics)) does an excellent job of re-opening the canon and making lesser works accessible and affordable.
This collection is nicely varied: from the epistolary social comedy of Gascoigne's Adventures of Master FJ, to the linguistic excess of Lyly's Euphues, this charts a less well-worn trajectory and expands our understanding of what the canonicals were reading and writing against.
A really well-thought out collection - highly recommended for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.
This collection is nicely varied: from the epistolary social comedy of Gascoigne's Adventures of Master FJ, to the linguistic excess of Lyly's Euphues, this charts a less well-worn trajectory and expands our understanding of what the canonicals were reading and writing against.
A really well-thought out collection - highly recommended for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.
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A pretty good collection. It includes "The Adventures ofMaster F.J.," by George Gascoigne; "Euphues: The Anatomy ofWit," by John Lyly; "Pandosto: The Triumph of Time," by Robert Greene; "The Unfortunate Traveller," by Thomas Nashe; and "Jack of Newbury," by Thomas Deloney. I reckon Nashe's book is probably the best. "Euphues" was perhaps the first important work of English fiction, and it was quite a sensation in its time. "Pandosto" was the source for Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale."
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I got what I expected in good quality. It is a good quality used book and there were no marks on the pages.
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