Sir Philip Sidney: the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia, Second Revised Edition
(Hardback, 2nd edition)
Publishing Details
Sir Philip Sidney: the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia, Second Revised Edition
By (Author) Victor Skretkowicz
Edited by Elisabeth Chaghafi
Edited by J. B. Lethbridge
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st July 2024
2nd edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
823.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
686
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Shipwrecks, gory battle scenes, cross-dressing, toxic relationships, abduction, torture (psychological and physical), comical country bumpkins, and, of course, love and poetry Sir Philip Sidneys witty pastoral romance The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia is the classic that has it all in terms of entertainment factors.
Modern readers mostly know Arcadia in its complete old version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590) that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. While preserving the basic plot a ruler attempts to escape an alarming oracle by moving his family to the countryside and engaging in shepherd-cosplay until the arrival of two foreign princes triggers a chain of events leading to the fulfilment of the oracle this version adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions that showcase Sidneys stylistic brilliance as a prose writer.
Author Bio
Victor Skretkowicz joined the Department of English at the University of Dundee in 1978, and remained there until 2009.
Elisabeth Chaghafi is a Lecturer in English at Tbingen University.
J. B. Lethbridge is a Lecturer emeritus at Tbingen University.
