These five works - George Gascoigne's "The Adventures of Master F. J"; John Lyly's "Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit"; Robert Greene's "Pandosto. The Triumph of Time"; Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller" and Thomas Deloney's "Jack of Newbury" - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. "The Adventures of Master F. J." is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In "Euphues" John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. "Pandosto" was Shakespeare's source for "The Winter's Tale", but Greene's is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. "The Unfortunate Traveller" marks the peak of Nashe's gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. "Jack of Newbury" dedicated to 'All famous cloth Workers in England', sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue.

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