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elizabethan age - Coggle Diagram
elizabethan age
development of prose
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initially it was limited to the translation of foreign books, especially italian novellas or short romantic stories like
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the most important prose romance of that period is the work ofJOHN LYLY - his publication of euphues, the anatomy of wit (1578) and euphues and his england (1580)
it was a sort of love story but with no action - what little narrative there is - merely an excuse for discourse and moralisings
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through this, lyly also invented his own style euphuism - a preciously ornate and sophisticated style which employs a deliberate excess of literary devices like antithesis, alliteration, repetitions and rhetorical questions
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Thomas lodge (1558-1625)
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main work - lodge's rosalynde,euphues' golden legacy (1590)