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Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia in its complete ‘old’ version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. Preserving the basic plot, New Arcadia adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions, demonstrating Sidney’s brilliance as a prose writer.
This edition of the New Arcadia 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.
'This volume is the new standard.'
—Choice
Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association
'This new edition belongs in the collections of every college and university library in the English-speaking world and on the study shelves of every scholar who works with Sidney or with the countless authors whose writing has been enlivened and enlightened by his brilliance.'
—Sidney Journal
‘The long-awaited new standard edition of the New Arcadia is now out, and it is magnificent… the most reliable and illuminating edition of Sidney’s revised Arcadia ever undertaken.’
—Donald Stump, Sidney Journal
General Preface
Preface to the 1987 Edition
References and Abbreviations
General Introduction
Textual Introduction
List of Sigla
The History of Arcadia in Print
Arcadia Editions Before 1700
Rhetorical Figures in the New Arcadia
The New Arcadia
The First Book
The Second Book
The Third Book
Appendices
I. Eclogues from the 1590 edition
II. Dedication from the Old Arcadia
III. Evidence against T
IV. New Arcadia – Rhetorical Figures
Commentary
The First Book
The Second Book
TheThird Book
The Eclogues
Glossary
Index of Characters
Index of Other Names
Index of Places
Index of First Lines of Poems
Genealogical Tables
General Index to Introduction and Commentary