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Show 231 in the sixteenth is entertaining than instructive; the moral didacticism more but Like most works of fiction written century. to only provide a veneer importance, however. fellow writers readers "with To "performed a Such respectability. quote Louis B. Wright a of quantity of worthy reading service far as Republic theme and purpose concerned, the volume Greene's greatest of his riors and their is " and are more success happiest works, tales themselves. there, certainly, a veneer was once not without again, Greene and his by providing" their middle-class matter which furnished amusement without In his dedication Greene maintains that as is the era, it of damnation. ,,10 smelling too strongly influenced by Plato's during Hoby's Courtier, concerned. His Censure has been Euphues As far 11 as which seems narrative to be true technique is in the tradition of the French and Italian novelles. in this romance, which C. S. Lewis claims "Is one derives from the connecting links rather than from the In the dialogue ladies, "Greene eloquence, .and irony which his that takes place between the as meets all the demands for pomp, theme makes upon him. Greene's dedication to Essex seems to be little 1V sembled war- ceremony, 12 more than an attempt to increase the volume 's market value. 10 Middl-Class Culture in Elizabethan IEuphSi:ajS Gensue to Philatus, .p. . \ " .e::·lf\ ", .. - England, p. 386. sig. A ii recto .. J , 12 C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, p. 420. |
