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The Woman in the Moon
''The Woman in the Moon'' is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. Its unique status in that playwright's dramatic canon – it is the only play Lyly wrote in blank verse rather than prose — has presented scholars and critics with a range of questions and problems.
==Publication and Performance==
''The Woman in the Moon'' was entered into the Stationers' Register on 22 September 1595, and was first published in quarto in 1597 by the bookseller William Jones. The title page of the quarto states that the play was presented before Queen Elizabeth I, though no specific performance is mentioned.
Although most of Lyly's plays were acted by the children's company Paul's Boys,〔Gordon, Ian A. "John Lyly: Overview." Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Literature Resource Center. Web. 3 Nov. 2013〕 the playing company that acted this particular work is a mystery. However, ''The Woman in the Moon'' is thought to have been first produced between 1590 and 1595, most likely in 1593.〔DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. 2007. Web. 03 Nov. 2013. .〕
The play's Prologue maintains that the work "is but a poet's dream, / The first he had in Phoebus' holy bower, / But not the last...." Nineteenth-century critics took this statement at face value, and considered ''The Woman in the Moon'' the first of Lyly's plays, written sometime in the early 1580s. As such, it would have been an important early development in English dramatic blank verse. Later critics, however, disputed this conclusion, arguing that the Prologue may only mean that this was Lyly's first play in verse, and that in style "The blank verse is that of the nineties, rather than the early eighties."〔E. K. Chambers, ''The Elizabethan Stage,'' 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, p. 416-17.〕 The modern critical consensus tends to favour the view that ''The Woman in the Moon,'' far from being Lyly's first play, was likely his last, written in the 1590–95 period.〔Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., ''The Predecessors of Shakespeare: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama,'' Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1973; pp. 135, 137.〕
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