As proprietor of the playhouse, Lyly installed Evans as the manager of the new company of Oxford's Boys, composed of the Children of the Chapel and the Children of Paul's.

He was noted for his literary and theatrical patronage, and between 1564 and 1599 some 33 works included dedications to him by authors including Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday.

For a time Lyly was the most successful and fashionable of English writers, hailed as the author of " a new English ," as a " raffineur de l ' Anglois "; and, as Edward Blount, the editor of his plays, wrote in 1632, " that beautie in court which could not parley Euphuism was as little regarded as she which nowe there speakes not French.

In 1583 he bought the sublease of the first Blackfriars Theatre and gifted it to the poet-playwright Lyly, who operated it for a season under Oxford's patronage.

Both Lyly and Munday were in Oxford's service at the time.

In addition to the plays, Lyly also composed at least one " entertainment " ( a show that combined elements of masque and drama ) for Queen Elizabeth ; The Entertainment at Chiswick was staged on July 28 and 29, 1602.

* Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's ; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.

Lyly turned his talents to play writing, and his Campaspe was performed at Court on New Year's Day 1584, and Sapho and Phao on 3 March, with Lyly listed as the payee for both appearances.

* Gallathea, a late 16th century play by John Lyly

If A Shrew was not an early draft ( i. e. not by Shakespeare ), we would have " to assume around 1593 the existence of a dramatist other than Shakespeare who was capable of devising a three-part structure more impressive than the structure of any extant play by Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe, or Kyd.

* Endymion ( play ), by John Lyly

Harvey dreaded lest Lyly should make a play upon their quarrel ; Francis Meres, as is well known, places him among " the best for comedy ;" and Ben Jonson names him among those foremost rivals who were " outshone " and outsung by Shakespeare.

The genre soon became very popular ; the intricately-plotted romantic comedies of Shakespeare and John Lyly that had been in vogue on the public and private stages until this point were largely superseded by plays which were set in a recognizable contemporary London, and which dealt with, in Ben Jonson's words, " deeds and language such as men do use " ( Prologue to Every Man in his Humour ).

" After the publication of Euphues Lyly seems to have entirely deserted the novel form, which was much imitated ( e. g., by Barnabe Rich in his Second Tome of the Travels and Adventures of Don Simonides, 1584 ), and to have thrown himself almost exclusively into play-writing, probably still with a view to the mastership of revels.

The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Don Simonides, a Gentleman Spaniard ( 1581 ), with its sequel The Second Tome of the Travels and Adventures of Don Simonides ( 1584 ), is written in imitation of Lyly.

In the mid-to-late 1590s Buck was in competition with playwright John Lyly for the reversion of the office of the Master of the Revels, then held by Buck's relation Sir Edmund Tilney (" reversion " meaning that the candidate would obtain the office when the present office-holder vacated it — usually by death ).

It may be conjectured with great probability that the ten years date from 1579, when Tylney was appointed Master of the Revels with a tacit understanding that Lyly was to have the next reversion of the post.

He suggested that de Vere was also responsible for the literary works of Arthur Golding, Anthony Munday and John Lyly.

Lyly was vocal in his distress at facing competition for an office he thought he'd been promised ; his letters of protest and supplication to Queen Elizabeth and to Cecil are still extant.

Sir Thomas Benger succeeded Cawarden, and Edmund Tylney followed him ( 1579 – 1610 ); it was the appointment of the latter's nephew, Sir George Buck, as deputy-master, with the reversion to the mastership, which led to so much repining on the part of the dramatist, John Lyly, who was himself a candidate.

The government was concerned enough at the virulence of the attacks on the ecclesiastical hierarchy to respond in kind, hiring professional writers such as Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene and John Lyly to write counter-tracts.

John Lyly ( Lilly or Lylie ; c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606 ) was an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit ( 1578 ) and Euphues and His England ( 1580 ).

John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553 / 1554, to Peter Lyly ( d. 1569 ) and his wife, Jane Burgh ( or Brough ), of Burgh Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

In 1574 he applied to Lord Burghley for the Queen's letters to admit him as fellow at Magdalen College, but the fellowship was not granted, and Lyly subsequently left the university.

Another romance in the manner of Lyly, Euphues Shadow, the Battaile of the Sences ( 1592 ), appeared while Lodge was still on his travels.

However, as Geoffrey Bullough argues " Shakespeare's debt to Lyly was probably one of technique more than matter.

The first air operation of the Whites during the war was flown over Lyly.

It was Lyly who perfected the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based.

Now in his thirties, Oxford bought a sublease of the premises used by the boy companies in the Blackfriars sometime after November, 1583, and then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly.

It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly.

This unauthorized assignment of the sublease gave More an excuse to bring suit to retake possession of the property, but More used legal delays and finally escaped legal action by selling the sublease to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, sometime after Michaelmas Term ( November ) of 1583, who then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly.

Among the productions of this group were Pappe with an Hatchet ( Sept. 1589 ), probably by Lyly, and An Almond for a Parrat ( 1590 ), which, with certain tracts under the pseudonym of Pasquil, has been attributed to Nashe.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

* November 20 – ( burial date ) John Lyly, English writer ( b. 1553 )

Ben Jonson mentions him in the same breath as Christopher Marlowe ( with whom, in London, Kyd at one time shared a room ) and John Lyly in the Shakespeare First Folio.

Some possible influences can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's The Cobbler's Prophecy ( c. 1590 ) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's L ' Academie française ( 1577 ).

Among English writers who have made the most abundant use of antithesis are Pope, Young, Johnson, and Gibbon ; and especially Lyly in his Euphues.

John Lyly says in the prologue to his Endymion ( 1591 ), " There liveth none under the sunne, that knows what to make of the man in the moone.

Its MP Lyly Rajala and MEP Eija-Riitta Korhola defected to the National Coalition in 2003, and the former party secretary Annika Kokko moved National Coalition in 2007.

* November-John Lyly, dramatist and novelist ( born c. 1553 )

Later in the year, however, they are banned from performing because of the involvement of their chief script-writer, Lyly, in the Marprelate controversy.

* John Lyly ( attr.

He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of John Lyly, and affected a kind of subdued euphuism.