Abstract
John Lyly’s debts to Italy are difficult to assess. Currently, there is consensus that Lyly’s dramatic works are rooted in the cultural background of his own country, even if they include stock characters and repartee from the bag of tricks which was the patrimony of the comic theatre in sixteenth-century Western Europe.1
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Messora, N. (1991). Parallels between Italian and English Courtly Plays in the Sixteenth Century: Carlo Turco and John Lyly. In: Mulryne, J.R., Shewring, M. (eds) Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21736-6_7
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