The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of...
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Mary Sidney (redirect from Mary herbert, countess of pembroke)
Sidney, Philip (2003) [1590 published by William Ponsonby]. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Transcriptions: Heinrich Oskar Sommer (1891); Risa Stephanie...
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prose romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, which established Arcadia as an icon of the Renaissance; although the story is plentifully supplied...
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Philip Sidney (category People of the Elizabethan era)
as The Defence of Poesie or An Apology for Poetrie) and a pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. He died fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands...
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Head over Heels (musical) (category Musicals set in the 16th century)
that adapts the plot of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, the 16th-century prose romance by Sir Philip Sidney. It resembles the Old Arcadia more closely...
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Pembroke's Arcadia, which was intended for her pleasure alone, not for publication. The two also worked on a metrical edition of the Psalms. When the...
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movies Arcadia (play), a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard Arcadia (poem), a 1504 poem by Jacopo Sannazaro The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia or Arcadia, a prose...
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meaning "utopia". Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) wrote The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, a combination of pastoral romance and poetry, for his sister, Mary...
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Astrology (redirect from Basis of astrology)
Sidney refers to astrology at least four times in his romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (c. 1580). Edmund Spenser uses astrology both decoratively...
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Night Books & Art Voynich manuscript Aurora consurgens The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia A painting by Hieronymus Bosch (Ch. 27) Places Baynard's Castle...
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (a.k.a. Arcadia) (1581) Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, (a.k.a. The Blazing...
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Prosimetrum (section Usage of term)
14th century) Arcadia (1504) by Sannazaro Diana (1559), by Jorge de Montemayor The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), by Philip Sidney The Lover's Watch...
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Philip Sidney invented the name Pamela for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, written in the late 16th century...
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First Folio (redirect from The First Folio)
was not unprecedented. Starting with the publication of Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593) and Astrophel and Stella (1598)...
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responses to the text aided her revision of the manuscript. Sources for Urania include Wroth's uncle Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Wroth...
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The Arcadia is James Shirley's dramatization of the prose romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, one expression of the enormous...
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Virginia Woolf bibliography (redirect from The Death of the Moth)
Copperfield Defoe De Quincey's Autobiography The Cosmos The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia The Docks of London Donne After Three Centuries Dorothy Osborne's...
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often credited as the first in English. The first published (toward the end of Book I of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, 1590) is the double sestina...
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lover's father by means of a corded ladder (as Valentine does in Two Gentlemen). Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia may also have influenced...
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Hesperides (redirect from Garden of the Hesperides)
Hesperides with an equally idyllic Arcadia is a modern one, conflating Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and Robert Herrick's Hesperides:...
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Skretkowicz, "General Introduction," in Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The New Arcadia), ed. Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford: Clarendon Press...
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[1590]. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Cambridge University Press. pp. 206–212. Buxton, R. G. A. (1980). "Blindness and Limits: Sophokles and the Logic...
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Catoblepas (category History of Nubia)
the huge mane of stiff bristles that hide its face. In The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia) (c. 1570–1586), by Sir Philip Sidney, the...
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Given name (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
in his epic prose work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia; Jessica, created by William Shakespeare in his play The Merchant of Venice; Vanessa, created...
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the twelve months of the year. The Calender encompasses considerable formal innovations, anticipating the even more virtuosic Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia...
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Agostini The Anatomie of Abuses (1583) by Stubbes (one of first to imagine an imaginary country) Arcadia (or The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) (1590)...
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Elizabethan literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, An Apology for Poetry, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia...
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English literature (redirect from Age of sensibility)
whose works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Poems intended to be set to music as songs...
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Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1580, pub. 1590). In the 1914–18 war the castle was a hospital. In the 1939–45 war the castle was occupied...
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Jeff Whitty (category Tisch School of the Arts alumni)
Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and the back catalog of 80's pop stars The Go-Go's. After it opened on June 13, Whitty's version of the musical...
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