Endymion, the Man in the Moon

Alternative title(s): Endimion
Author(s): Lyly, John
Date of composition:
  • 1588 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 2, p. 394)
  • 1585 -1588 (Wiggins, vol. 2, p. 394)
Date of first performance: 1588
Date of first publication: 1591
Genre (Annals): Classical legend (Comedy)
Genre: comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 794 (Vol. 2)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1996 modern edition by David Bevington (The Revels Plays).
  • 1591 quarto Charlewood, John Broome, Joan Printed title: ENDIMION, The Man in the Moone single-play print
      ESTC: S109719 17050 133 99a
      EEBO-TCP: A06589 - Huntington Library - EEBO record - TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Substantive textual version

  • STC/WING:
  • ESTC:
  • DEEP:
  • Greg:
  • Wiggins: 794

Early Performances

  • Company: Children of Paul’s Venue: Greenwich Palace (Palace of Placentia) Date: 1588
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: palace / court
      Note: 2 February
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 2: 1567-1589. 2012.
    • Company: Children of Paul’s Venue: Paul’s playhouse Date: 1591
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
        Note: Indoor “private” theatre
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 2: 1567-1589. 2012.

      Modern editions

      • Bevington, David, ed. Endymion. Lyly, John. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. The Revels Plays.
      • Carter A.; Daniel, ed. The Plays of John Lyly. Lewisburg, London and Toronto: Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, 1988, pp. 147-197.
      • Brooke, Charles F.Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933.
      • Bond, R. W., ed. The Complete Works of John Lyly. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902, pp. 5-103.

      Select Bibliography: Criticism

      • Kelley, Shannon. "Desire, a Crooked Yearning, and the Plants of 'Endymion'". Renaissance Drama. 2016, vol. 1, 44, p. 1-23.
      • Bozio, Andrew. "The Contemplative Cosmos: John Lyly's 'Endymion' and the Shape of Early Modern Space". Studies in Philology. 2016, vol. 1, 113, p. 55-81.
      • Knoll, Gillian. "How To Make Love to the Moon: Intimacy and Erotic Distance in John Lyly's 'Endymion'". Shakespeare Quarterly. 2014, vol. 2, 65, p. 164-179.
      • Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. "An Allusion to Aeneid II in Lyly's 'Endymion'". Etudes Classiques. 2013, vol. 3-4, 81, p. 376-377.
      • Scragg, Leah. "John Lyly, 'Endymion'". Ed. Betteridge, Thomas; Walker, Greg. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 323-337.
      • Simpson, Nancy L. "Teaching Lyly's 'Endymion' in Undergraduate Survey Courses". This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. 2012, , .
      • Neufeld, Christine M. "Lyly's 'Endymion' and Midas: The Catholic Question in England". Ed. Lunney, Ruth. John Lyly. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011, p. 139-159.
      • Deats, Sara. "The Disarming of the Knight: Comic Parody in Lyly's 'Endymion". Ed. Lunney, Ruth. John Lyly. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011, p. 283-291.
      • Shenk, Linda. "Elizabeth I's Divine Wisdom: St. Paul, Conformity, and John Lyly's 'Endymion'". Ed. Stump, Donald; Shenk, Linda; Levin, Carole. Elizabeth I and the "Sovereign Arts": Essays in Literature, History, and Culture. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011, p. 261-280.
      • Vanhoutte, Jacqueline. "Age in Lust: Lyly's 'Endymion' and the Court of Elizabeth I". Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 2011, vol. 1, 37, p. 51-70.
      • Khomenko, Natalia. "'Between You and Her No Comparison': Witches, Healers, and Elizabeth I in John Lyly's 'Endymion'". Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early English Drama. 2010, vol. 1, 13, p. 37-63.
      • Neufeld, Christine M. "Lyly's Chimerical Vision: Witchcraft in 'Endymion'". Journal of Classic and English Renaissance Literature. 2004, vol. 1, 13, p. 117-38.
      • Bevington, David. "Lyly's 'Endymion' and 'Midas': The Catholic Question in England". Comparative Drama. 1998, vol. 1, 32, p. 26-46.
      • Hawamdeh, Mufeed F. "The interchange of splendor: a contextual study of the allegory in John Lyly's 'Endymion'". Mu'tah Journal for Research and Studies. 1994, vol. 4, 9, p. 131-58.
      • Dust, Philip. "The Kiss in Lyly's 'Endymion'". English Miscellany: A Symposium of History, Literature and the Arts. 1975, 25, p. 87-95.
      • Deats, Sara. "The Disarming of the Knight: Comic Parody in Lyly's 'Endymion". South Atlantic Bulletin. 1975, vol. 4, 40, p. 67-75.
      • Weltner, Peter. "The Antinomic Vision of Lyly's 'Endymion". English Literary Renaissance. 1973, 3, p. 5-29.
      • Braendel, Doris B. "The Limits of Clarity: Lyly's 'Endymion', Bronzino's 'Allegory of Venus and Cupid', Webster's 'White Devil', and Botticelli's 'Primavera'". Hartford Studies in Literature. 1972, 4, p. 197-215.
      • Bryant, J. A., Jr. "The Nature of the Allegory in Lyly's 'Endymion". Renaissance Papers. 1956, , p. 4-11.

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