Abstract
This chapter focuses primarily on Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), by John Lyly. Euphues is a work of prose fiction that offers to tell the story of a young man ‘of more wit than wealth, and yet of more wealth than wisdom’. In addition, the chapter flanks the discussion with works of fiction produced by two other figures. The first of these is George Gascoigne's Discourse of the Adventures Passed by Master F.J. (1573), which is one of the earliest examples of the urbane, courtly fiction that Lyly would make his own. The second is Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), whose secondary title, ‘Camilla's Alarum to slumbering Euphues’, signals both an acknowledgement and rewriting of Lyly's fiction by his successors, which would move Elizabethan fiction in a direction that Lyly himself may never have attempted.
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