Sir philip sidney arcadia summary
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
1593 book by Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century.
Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded and revised his work. Scholars today often refer to these two major versions as the Old Arcadia and the New Arcadia. The Arcadia is Sidney's most ambitious literary work by far, and as significant in its own way as his sonnets.
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Composition and publication
Sidney's Arcadia has a history that is unusually complex even for its time.
The Old Arcadia
Sidney may have begun an early draft in the late 1570s, when he was in his twenties.
His own comments indicate that his purpose was humble; he asserts that he intended only to entertain his sister, Mary Herbert (Countess of Pembroke from 1577). This version is narrated in chronological order, with sets of po