The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The Old Arcadia - Couverture souple

Sidney, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199549842 ISBN 13 : 9780199549849

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 comparable to that of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is divided into five `Acts', and abounds in lively speeches, dialogues, and quasi-dramatic tableaux. As a vehicle for Sidney's prophetic ideas about English versification, the `Old' Arcadia also includes over seventy poems in a wide variety of metres and genres. In clarity, symmetry, and coherence the `Old' version is greatly superior both to the ambitious but unfinished `New' Arcadia and the amalgamated, `composite' version, a hybrid monster which Sidney himself never envisaged. Published On: 2023-04-18

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Fellow in English at Somerville College, Oxford. She is the author of Sidney: Courtier Poet (1991); and the editor of Oxford Authors Sidney (1989) and Oxford Poetry Library Sidney (1994).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199549842
• ISBN 13: 9780199549849
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible