Sidney's The Arcadia (1580) is a multi-faceted work encompassing pastoral romance, moral treatise, and rhetorical guide, exploring the complexities of love and philosophy through a tragicomic narrative.
Sidney's The Arcadia (1580) is a pastoral prose romance, courtesy book, moral treatise, and rhetorical handbook dedicated to his sister. It includes a tragicomic plot with serious and comic elements, exploring love and philosophy.
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| 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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