Elizabethan Fictions

Sexual intrigue, domestic espionage, the leaking of highly sensitive information: these were the topics of the experimental prose fiction of the 1550s. Robert Maslen's book provides a much-needed reappraisal of one of the most daringly innovative epochs in the history of the novel, through a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers of the period.