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The interchange of splendor : a contextual study of the allegory in John Lyly's Endimion
Author
Source
Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series
Issue
Vol. 9, Issue 4 (30 Nov. 1994), pp.131-158, 28 p.
Publisher
Mutah University Deanship of Academic Research
Publication Date
1994-11-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
28
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The paper also demonstrates that the purpose of Lyly's court comedy was originally to compliment Queen Elizabeth I, and how he enriches that compliment by using Cynthia as an allegorical figure for the monarch.
He recruits different implications to Cynthia to the extent that she becomes a composite of classical associations and Lylian inovations.
There are traces of the myth of Cynthia and Endimion integrated into the play; Cynthia is shown as Diana, the goddess of chastity and fertility; and the dimension of Cynthia as the moon, thus a heavenly body that demarcates the earthly from the heavenly spheres, as was believed at the time.
Beside all these dimensions and implications, Lyly presents the allegorical figure in the role of a human queen presiding over her court and restoring order and stability to her society.
As a queen, Cynthia gathers the qualities of sanctity and primacy of the human society according to the concept of the Chain of Being.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hawamidah, Mufid F.. 1994. The interchange of splendor : a contextual study of the allegory in John Lyly's Endimion. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series،Vol. 9, no. 4, pp.131-158.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hawamidah, Mufid F.. The interchange of splendor : a contextual study of the allegory in John Lyly's Endimion. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series Vol. 9, no. 4 (Nov. 1994), pp.131-158.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-397109
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hawamidah, Mufid F.. The interchange of splendor : a contextual study of the allegory in John Lyly's Endimion. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series. 1994. Vol. 9, no. 4, pp.131-158.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-397109
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 154-158
Record ID
BIM-397109