"Old" Arcadia

By Sir Philip Sidney · Running time 17:20:22 · Action & Adventure Fiction, Culture & Heritage Fiction, Literary Fiction

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Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia . The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the battlefield. The less complicated but finished earlier version, here recorded, was written while the author resided with his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. To a greater degree than other romances having pastoral settings, like Lodge's Rosalynde , the main characters, the chief secondary ones, and even some minor ones are not shepherds but great persons sojourning in the countryside of Arcadia, an idealized pagan Greek duchy, the heroes disguised in order

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