Galatea and Midas: John Lyly

by John Lyly

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Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster. Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:071907827X

ISBN13:9780719078279

Release Date:January 2007

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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