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Greene's Gwydonius, or äs Greene called the second edition 1 -Greene's Garde of Fände -owed much to earlier writers. It first appeared in 1584 at a time when Lyly's euphuistic style was at its peak of popularity. The title -The Garde of Fändefollowed a pattern which remained populär until the later years of the sixteenth Century: it consisted in combining the name of a concrete object with the name of some abstract quality. Greene knew the pattern from such works äs Painter's Palace of Pleasure (entered in the Stationers' Register in 1562 äs The Gytie of Cyvelüie) or from Whetstone's Bocke of Regarde (1576). Greene's friend, Henry Chettle, wrote a Forrest of Fände, which contained "pleasaunt histories ... in prose" 2 . In both book titles the word fände means love or infatuation, and the carde is the mariner's card or compass, which Swings and swivels to and fro like man's affection 3 . The subtitle speaks of those who guide their course "by the compass of Cupid", äs do both Gwydonius and Castania; she eventually resolves: "he shall be the starre shall guide my compasse" (p. 249) 4 . 1 The first edition was unknown to Grosart when he edited The Carde of Fände in the 1880s, although

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Author

HELMUT BONHEIM

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 0340-5222)

Published

1978

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)