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Arcadia Book Moral Love Prose Romance Sidney Pastoral

Front the Arcadia
Back prose Romance
Sidney
pastoral
courtesy book
moral treatise
discussion of love and philosophy
rhetorical handbook
1580
dedicated to his sister
tragicomic in five acts
serious double plot and a comic underplot
two princes, pyrocles and musidorous
old Arcadia
like astrophil and Stella , the old Arcadia examines the various workings of love on the human character
new Arcadia, 1590 under the supervision of his friend Fulke Greville
the revised Arcadia is more serious book than the first, moral earnestness is constantly deepened, especially in the depiction of Pamela

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