
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...

Was anyone undone by fire, or turned to ashes through desire?

This is a photographic facsimile of John Lyly's comedy Gallathea , printed in 1592, taken from the copy in the British Library, with the songs from Lyly's Sixe Court Comedies , printed in 1632, taken from the copy in the Huntington Library, California.