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.

This is a used book in excellent condition.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 464
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780199540570
ISBN 10: 0199540578