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The sound of virtue : Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan politics

Written around 1580, Philip Sidney's Arcadia is a romance, a love story, a work of wit and enchantment set in an ancient and mythical land. But, as Blair Worden now startlingly reveals, it is also a grave and urgent commentary on Elizabethan politics. Under the protective guise of pastoral fiction, Sidney produced a searching reflection on the misgovernment of Elizabeth I and on the failings of monarchy as a system of government
Print Book, English, ©1996
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300066937, 0300066937
34721696
List of Illustrations
xi(2)
List of Abbreviationsxiii(2)
The Principal Characters (The Old Arcadia)xv(1)
Synopsis (The Old Arcadia)xvi(3)
Prefacexix
PART ONE: POETRY AND PRECEPT3(38)
1 Teaching and Delight
3(20)
2 Virtue and Religion
23(18)
PART TWO: THE CONTEXT41(86)
3 Sidney's Loyalties
41(17)
4 An Unelected Vocation
58(13)
5 A Losing Cause
71(18)
6 The Anjou Match
89(26)
7 Standing Alone
115(12)
PART THREE: ANALOGIES127(82)
8 Three Crises of Counsel
127(19)
9 The Reign of Basilius
146(26)
10 Mary Queen of Scots
172(12)
11 The Death of Basilius
184(25)
PART FOUR: POLITICAL THOUGHT209(88)
12 Monarchal Dissipations
209(18)
13 Forms of Government
227(26)
14 History Lessons
253(13)
15 On Ister Bank
266(15)
16 Resistance
281(16)
PART FIVE: LOVE AND POLITICS297(58)
17 Falling in Love
297(23)
18 Public and Private Respects
320(21)
19 Causeless Yieldings
341(14)
Appendix A: Greville, Sidney and the Two Arcadias355(15)
Appendix B: Sir John Hayward and the Old Arcadia370(2)
Appendix C: Philisides' Fable372(5)
Bibliography377(10)
Index387
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