#john lyly

[britneyshakespeare]

Affection that is bred by enchantment is like a flower that is wrought in silk—in color and form most like, but nothing at all in substance or savor.

Floscula, I.ii, Endymion (1591) by John Lyly

[luminarywaves]

reading gallathea for class and LOVING IT like these two girls have to dress as men and hide in the woods to escape from being sacrifices for poseidon and while they're there they fall in love with each other thinking that the other is a guy but then at the end they find out that they were both girls but want to marry each other anyway and aphrodite is like yeah sure i'll turn one of you into a guy so you can do that but we never find out which one she turns into a guy..... lesbianism and gender fuckery has been winning even in 1588!!!

[shakespearenews]

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

Bringing together gods and mortals in a town that refuses a monstrous sacrifice, Galatea is a story of mistaken identity and first love, where gender and sexual attraction are elastic. And this is no straight staging. “My practice has been more rooted in contemporary performance and traditions of queer and trans cabaret,” says Frankland, whose last show I saw had her sharpening knives on the broken wings of an angel at the end of the world. “When Andy and I discussed staging this, we thought, ‘What would it be to approach the play with that community?’”

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Galatea is a busy, clever play, but its core message is one of acceptance. Towards the end, Venus, the goddess of love, is asked what she makes of the queer lovers in front of her. “I like it well, and allow it,” she declares. As simple as that. “We’re currently dealing with such a hostile environment,” says Frankland, “particularly towards trans people. And here is this play that has this explicit moment of acceptance.”

[poemoftheday]

Poem of the Day 1 October 2023

John Lyly. 1553-1606

Cards and Kisses

CUPID and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes— She won, and Cupid blind did rise.   O Love! has she done this for thee?   What shall, alas! become of me?

[writernotwaiting]

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brigh

[senso1954]

from Endymion by John Lyly. First performed February 2nd, 1588.

[My thoughts, Eumenides, are stitched to the / stars, which being as high as I can see, thou may'st / imagine how much higher they are than I can reach.]

[nedlittle]

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gallathea (1588)  🤝 maurice  🤝 sir gawain & the green knight queerness as the boundary between wilderness and civilisation 

[blogofathousanddoodles]

Galatea and Phillida

This is a painting I did a few years ago inspired by the characters from John Lyly’s play Galatea (Or Gallathea, depending on the copy of the script).