Philip Sidney

Arcadia (eBook, ePUB)

A Romance
Redaktion: Ross, Charles Stanley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593), well known to Shakespeare, was the most popular piece of original English fiction and poetry for over two hundred years. This restored and modernized text has been specially designed for contemporary readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parlor Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781602358614
• Artikelnr.: 56816131

Autorenporträt

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier. He is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. Charles Ross studied Sidney with William A. Ringler, Jr. at the University of Chicago. A former Fulbright-Hays Scholar in Italy, Ross is Professor of English and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Purdue University. His books include the first English translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's 1583 Italian romance Orlando Innamorato (1989; 2004) and a verse translation of L. Paninius Statius's first-century Latin Thebaid (2004). He has also written The Custom of the Castle from Malory to Macbeth (1997); Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare (2003), and several edited collections of essays, including Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace (2009). Joel B Davis is Nell Carlton Professor of English at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. His most recent book is The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature (2011). He has published on Philip, Robert, Mary, and Henry Sidney, in Studies in Philology, The Sidney Journal, and The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700, and his essays on Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Sir Thomas Wyatt can be found in Papers on Language and Literature and Studies in Philology.