Comedies dominated professional stages in late 16th century England, defined by happy endings rather than humor. John Lyly helped establish the comedy genre, producing plays like Campaspe and Endymion that experimented with ornate prose over traditional verse. Lyly's comedies had complicated plots and often included multiple thematically related stories within one play, influencing later Elizabethan comedy writers.

1. COMEDY

2. Definition
 Comedies dominated the professional stage in the late sixteenth century; they
were defined by their happy endings rather than their use of humour, and
borrowed from classical and European comic writing.
John Lyly paved the way for comedies by producing a series for the new boy companies, including:
 Campaspe (1584)
And
 Endymion: The Man in the Moon (1591)

3.  Traditionally, comedies were written in verse, however, Lyly experimented with an
ornate prose style similar to that he employed in his well-known prose
 works:
 Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
 and
 Euphues and His England (1580)

4.  His plots are complicated, and several of his plays include multiple, thematically
and structurally related
 stories.