Hansen 1 Mrs. Crenshaw British Literature 4/22/2014 John Lyly John Lyly was a play write in the 1500s. He wrote mainly comedies and love story’s. He wrote plays such as Compaspe, Sapho and Phao, Gallathea, Endimion, Midas, Loves Medamorpasis, Mother Bombie, and The Woman in the Moon. John Lyly, in my opinion helped start the modern english play style and formed literature to a new way of writing. John Lyly was born in 1554. He attended