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John Lyly
Biography
John Lyly was an English writer, playwright, courtier, and parliamentarian. He is sometimes grouped with other professional dramatists of the 1580s and 1590s like Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, and Thomas Lodge, as one of the so-called University Wits.