Nashe and Lyly

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how writers attempt to evoke the mental forms and processes of their characters to portray the character's inner states and manifest them to the reader. The paper shows how two works from the same era address this issue; John Lyly's "Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit" and Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller." The paper demonstrates how the inner life of the main characters is addressed in a different way in these works. The paper explains that these approaches would be models for later works in terms of how to depict characters, whether observed from outside or represented in their own words.

From the Paper:

"John Lyly's Euphues actually has two parts, the first of which is The Anatomy of Wit. The man character is Euphues, and this character like the main character in the Nashe work is a traveler, in this case an Englishman arriving in Naples after a largely misspent youth. He falls in love with the governor's daughter, Lucilla, which creates a triangle with his friend Philautus. Lucilla finds another lover so that the two friends make up. Euphues then travels to Athens to be a student, and he writes a series of treatises on different subjects. The latter portion of the book is epistolary, meaning it unfolds in a series of letters between Euphues and his friends."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Lyly, John. Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit. Harry A. M. Clemons and Morris William Croll (eds.) London: G Routledge and Sons Ltd., 1916.
• Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveller. London: T. Scarlet for C. Burby, 1594. http://drk.sd23.bc.ca/DeVere/new_files_nov_29/The_Unfortunate_Travelle_34.pdf.

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