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Plot Summary. The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is a prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney. The first version was completed by the late 1570s. Sidney then went on to write a revised and expanded version that remained uncompleted at the time of his death in 1586. The story takes place in a province of Ancient Greece called Arcadia.
Oxford University Press, 1999 - Fiction - 399 pages. Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly handled', reflects their youthful vitality. The `Old' Arcadia tells a romantic story in a manner ...
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. to you: if you keepe it to your selfe, or to such friendes, who will weigh errors in the ballaunce of good will, I hope, for the fathers sake, it will be pardoned, perchaunce made much of, though in it selfe it haue deformities. For indeede, for seuerer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflinnglie
It is a pastoral romance, its action being held in the ideal Arcadia, where King Basileus has retired and where he brings up his daughters as shepherdesses. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia is the background to the story of love and chivalry. Musidorus and Pyrocles make their court to the most virtuous Pamela and to radiant Philoclea.
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia. Philip Sidney. Clarendon Press, 1987 - Fiction - 622 pages. Sir Philip Sidney stands beside Shakespeare and Spenser as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance, and his masterpiece, the Arcadia, continues to delight readers with its tales of love, political intrigue, kidnap and ...
Shortly after the start of his leave of absence, two young princes, Musidorous and Pyrocles, arrive in Arcadia, swept ashore at Lydia after being in a shipwreck. They are courageous and handsome, filled with integrity, and their adventures have been many. Pyrocles sees a picture of Philoclea and declares himself to be in love with her.
