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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(4):351-369; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqm060
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

Lyly's Chimerical Vision: Witchcraft in Endymion

Christine M. Neufeld

Department of English Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti
Michigan 48197
USA

cneufeld{at}emich.edu

  Abstract

One of the few plays to invoke witchcraft on an Elizabethan stage otherwise eerily silent on the subject, Lyly's Endymion is conventionally read as a panegyric juxtaposing the Queen and the witch. However, Lyly's mythographic play in Endymion portrays monstrosity not as an inversion, but as a confusion of categories which society deems discrete – a chimerical condition that aligns the Virgin Queen with the figure of the witch that haunts her society.

Key Words: Lyly • Endymion • Elizabeth I • witch • monstrosity • Medea • liminality • gender


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