Sir Philip Sidney

<p>Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version but it is the <i>New Arcadia</i> (published in 1590) a revised version of his pastoral romance <i>The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia</i> that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. Preserving the basic plot <i>New Arcadia </i>adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions demonstrating Sidney's brilliance as a prose writer.<br><br>This edition of the <i>New Arcadia</i> is the first in nearly four decades preserving the text of Victor Skretkowicz' celebrated 1987 edition whilst making the text accessible through modern spelling and supplementing it with a substantially expanded scholarly commentary an updated glossary and additional long notes on the book's history and Sidney's use of rhetorical devices as well as his contributions to the English language.</p>