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Gallathea and Midas

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"Galatea" and "Midas" are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year "the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country be sacrificed to a sea-monster." Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man. "Galatea" has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. "Midas" uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatizing two stories about King Midas in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court.

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release: December 01, 1969

ISBN: 0803252692

ISBN 13: 9780803252691

Gallathea and Midas

3.7/5 ( ratings)

"Galatea" and "Midas" are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year "the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country be sacrificed to a sea-monster." Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man. "Galatea" has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. "Midas" uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatizing two stories about King Midas in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court.

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release: December 01, 1969

ISBN: 0803252692

ISBN 13: 9780803252691

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