What is John Lyly?
{{Infobox writer |embed= |partner=<!-- or: | partners = --> |alma_mater=[[Magdalen College, Oxford]] |home_town= |period= |genre=<!-- or: | genres = --> |subject=<!-- or: | subjects = --> |movement=[[English Renaissance]] |notableworks={{unbulleted list|''[[Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit]]''|''[[Euphues|Euphues and his England]]''|''[[Campaspe (play)|Campaspe]]''|''[[Sapho and Phao]]''|''[[Gallathea]]''|''[[Endymion (play)|Endymion]]''|''[[Midas (Lyly play)|Midas]]''|''[[Mother Bombie]]''|''[[Love's Metamorphosis]]''|''[[The Woman in the Moon]]''}} |spouse=<!-- or: | spouses = --> |children= |citizenship= |parents=Peter Lyly and Jane Burgh |relatives={{unbulleted list|[[William Lily (grammarian)|William Lily]] (grandfather)|[[George Lily]] (uncle)}} |awards= |signature= |signature_alt= |years_active=1578–1602 |module= |website=<!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> |education= |nationality=English |honorific_prefix= |native_name_lang= |name=John Lyly |honorific_suffix=[[M.A. (Oxon)|M.A. (Oxon) & (Cantab)]] |image=John Lyly's signature (from a letter to Sir Robert Cecil, Feb. 4 1602-3; from original MS. in Hatfield Library).png |image_size= |image_upright= |alt= |caption=Lyly's signature, from a letter to [[Sir Robert Cecil]], 4 Feb. 1602-3 |native_name= |pseudonym= |residence= |birth_name= |birth_date=1553 or 1554 |birth_place=[[Kent]], [[Kingdom of England|England]] |death_date=30 November 1606 (age about 52) |death_place=[[London]], England |resting_place=[[St Bartholomew-the-Less]], London |occupation=Writer, dramatist, courtier, and [[Member of Parliament]] |language=[[Early Modern English]] }} '''John Lyly''' (1553 or 1554 – November 1606; also spelled ''Lilly'', ''Lylie'', ''Lylly'') was an English [[writer]], [[dramatist]], courtier, and parliamentarian. he was best known during his lifetime for his two books ''[[Euphues|Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit]]'' (1578) and its sequel ''Euphues and His England'' (1580). == References == <references /> * Hunter, G. K. (1962). ''John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier'' (376 pp). H