Euphues

Euphues [yoo-fyoo-eez] Examples noun

the main character in John Lyly’s works Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit (1579), and Euphues and His England (1580).

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And indeed we may say this not only of Euphues but of Elizabethan fiction as a whole.

John Dover Wilson

In the domain of style, Euphues was dynamical; the plays were not.

John Dover Wilson

Certainly Euphues does not prove that Puritanism was latent in him.

John Dover Wilson

I have said that it is very important to distinguish between the two parts of Euphues.

John Dover Wilson

The plays were not read or absorbed by their author’s contemporaries and successors; Euphues was.

John Dover Wilson