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Critical Essay by David Bevington
SOURCE: "'Jack Hath Not Jill': Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare," in Shakespeare Survey, Vol. 42, 1996, pp. 1-13.
[Here, Bevington compares Love's Labour's Lost to Lyly 's Sappho and Phao, maintaining that the play's contradictory portrayal of women—as objects of lust
Act V, scene ii. Princess, Boyet, and Ladies. Frontispiece to the Hanmer edition by Francis Hayman (¡744). I begin with two perceptions: first, the observation of Robert Y. Turner that English comedy did not really find a successful way to dramatize love in any psychological sense before Lyly began his career as a playwright, and second, that of Alfred Harbage and others that Love's...
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