Colour as an Art of Illusion in John Lyly’s Campaspe (1584)
While the renowned painter Apelles praises his future sitter’s beauty in John Lyly’s Campaspe, act 3 scene 1 (1584), the young Campaspe rejects his flattering speech, hinting that the oily material harmoniously brushed onto a canvas is merely akin to the deceitful conceit of colores rhetorici. This...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2015-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4281 |