Galatea

Alternative title(s): Gallathea [ 1592 quarto title page ] | Galathea | Tityrus and Galatea
Author(s): Lyly, John
Note: Date of first performance from Wiggins, vol. 2, p. 339.
Date of composition:
  • 1584 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 2, p. 337)
  • 1584 -1585 (Wiggins, vol. 2, p. 337)
Date of first performance: 1587 - 1588
Date of first publication: 1592
Genre (Annals): Classical legend (Comedy)
Genre: comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 754 (Vol. 2)
  • 1592 quarto Charlewood, John Broome, Joan Printed title: Gallathea single-play print
      ESTC: S109720 17080 140 105a
      EEBO-TCP: A06619 - Huntington Library - EEBO record - TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Substantive textual version.
      Reprint: Scragg, Leah, ed. Gallathea, 1592. By John Lyly. Oxford: Malone Society, 1988.

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  • Wiggins: 754

Early Performances

  • Company: Children of Paul’s (?) Venue: Paul’s playhouse (?) Date: 1587-8
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type:
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 2: 1567-1589. 2012.
    • Company: Children of Paul’s Venue: Greenwich Palace (Palace of Placentia) Date: 1588
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: palace / court
        Note: 1 January
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 2: 1567-1589. 2012.

      Modern editions

      • Scragg, Leah, ed. Galatea. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Revels Student Editions.
      • Hunter, George K., ed. Galatea. Lyly, John. In: Hunter, George K. ; Bevington, David, ed. Galatea and Midas. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
      • Scragg, Leah, ed. Selected Prose and Dramatic Work. Manchester: Fyefield, 1997, pp. 131-189.
      • Carter A., Daniel, ed. The Plays of John Lyly. Lewisburg, London and Toronto: Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, 1988, pp. 109-146.
      • Fraser, Russell A.; Rabkin, Norman, ed. Drama of the English Renaissance II: The Stuart Period. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1976.
      • Lancashire, Anne, ed. ‘Gallathea’ and ‘Midas’. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969. Regents Renaissance Drama.
      • Bond, R. W., ed. The Complete Works of John Lyly. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902, pp. 417-472.
      • Bevington, David, ed. Galathea. . Internet Shakespeare Editions.

      Select Bibliography: Translations

      • FR:
        • Lyly, John. "Galatée". Tra. Guinle, Francis. Ed. Cottegnies, Line; Laroque, François; Maguin, Jean-Marie. Théâtre élisabéthain. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. Vol. 1.

      Select Bibliography: Criticism

      • Chess, Simone. "'Or whatever you be': Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Labour in John Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme. 2015, vol. 4, 38, p. 145-166.
      • Wixson, Christopher. "Cross-Dressing and John Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Ed. Lunney, Ruth. John Lyly. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011, p. 351-366.
      • Pincombe, Mike. "John Lyly's 'Galatea': Politics and Literary Allusion". Ed. Cartwright, Kent. A Companion to Tudor Literature. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 381-394.
      • Wixson, Christopher. "Cross-Dressing and John Lyly's 'Gallathea'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2001, vol. 2, 41, p. 241-56.
      • Cartwright, Ken. "The Confusions of 'Gallathea': John Lyly as Popular Dramatist". Comparative Drama. 1998, vol. 3, 33, p. 207-39.
      • Brown, Julia. "Swift hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the iconography of Lyly's 'Gallathea' and Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.". hakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia: selected papers. 1997, 20, p. 42-58.
      • Vanhoutte, Jacqueline A. "Sacrifice, Violence and the Virgin Queen in Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Cahiers Élisabéthains: Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1996, 49, p. 1-14.
      • Jankowski, Theodora A. "'Where There Can Be No Cause of Affection': Redefining Virgins, Their Desires, and Their Pleasures in John Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Ed. Traub, Valerie; Kaplan, M. Lindsay; Callaghan, Dympna. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 253-74.
      • Gobbi, Stefania. "La metamorfosi annunciata in 'Gallathea' di John Lyly". Acme: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano. 1995, vol. 2, 48, p. 45-54.
      • Walen, Denise Ann. "Sex, Gender and Sexuality in John Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Dissertation Abstracts Internationa. 1994, vol. 9, 54, .
      • Caldwell, Ellen M.. "John Lyly's 'Gallathea': a new rhetoric of love for the Virgin Queen.". English Literary Renaissance. 1987, vol. 1, 17, p. 22-40.
      • Bergeron, David M. "The Education of Rafe in Lyly's 'Gallathea'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1983, vol. 2, 23, p. 197-206.
      • Meyer, Robert J. "'Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue': The Mystery of Love in Lyly's 'Gallathea'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1981, vol. 2, 21, p. 193-208.
      • Scragg, Leah. "Shakespeare, Lyly and Ovid: The Influence of 'Gallathea' on 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'". Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production. 1977, 30, p. 125-34.
      • Kemper, Susan C. "Dramaturgical Design in Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Thoth: Syracuse University Graduate Studies in English. 1976, vol. 3, 16, p. 19-31.
      • Allen, Don Cameron. "Neptune's 'Agar' in Lyly's 'Gallathea'". Modern Language Notes. 1934, vol. 7, 49, p. 451-52.

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