Not Just the Tudors

John Lyly: The Queer Shakespeare

John Lyly: The Queer Shakespeare

Not Just the Tudors


Published: 3 May 2021 at 06:00 Europe/London

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John Lyly's name may not be so familiar. He was a playwright and poet writing at the same time as Shakespeare and, in his day, was more famous than the Bard himself. Suzannah finds out more about Lyly's radical and, frankly, queer works and why he has been written out of history.  


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