biography
pronunciation:
[lilee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1554–1606)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in the Weald of Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and was MP for a while (1597–1601). He is remembered for the style of his writing, as seen in his two-part prose romance Euphues (1578, 1580). This work gave rise to the term euphuism, referring to an artificial and extremely elegant language, with much use made of complex similes and antithesis. Among his plays are The Woman in the Moone (1597) and Endimion, the Man in the Moone (1591). As a dramatist, he is important as the first English writer of high comedy, and for the use of prose as its medium of expression. |
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