Galatea

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Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch Galatea might be seen paradoxically as a parable for our time Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak directly to contemporary experience & twenty-first-century critical concerns Same-sex relationships shifts of authority & the destabilization of meaning all lend the play a surprising modernity making it at once the most accessible of Lyly's plays & the one most frequently performed today Designed for the student reader Leah Scragg's edition offers a range of perspectives on the work An extensive introduction locates the play in the context of the Elizabethan court opening a window onto a kind of drama very different from that of more familiar sixteenth-century writers such as Marlowe & Shakespeare The latter's indebtedness to the play is fully documented while detailed critical & performance histories allow an insight into the work's susceptibility to reinterpretation --