Sir Philip Sidney (eBook)

The Maker's Mind

Dorothy Connell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
246 Seiten
Dr (Verlag)
978-0-9997009-1-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Queen Elizabeth's court, 1580: Europe was at war or under Inquisition rule, sea voyages were opening an exciting New World, but England alone kept to a rare and tenuous peace. Philip Sidney was highly-educated, well-travelled and fitted for a career in diplomacy or soldiery, a friend to Europe's most prominent Protestant intellectuals, many of whom lived in exile. But at home he was idle and fell under a cloud when he opposed the Queen's marriage to the French Duke of Anjou.Should Philip, the child of royal servants and scion of the powerful Dudley family, join the stream of exiles? Instead he made another choice: to become a maker or poet. In doing so, despite his unpublished works and early death in 1586 at the age of thirty-two, he became one of the glories of English literature.When his works were first published posthumously in the 1590s, the playwright Shakespeare, like others of a younger generation, was strongly influenced to carry Sidney's style, themes and stories onward into As You Like It, King Lear, his own Sonnets and other writings.Dorothy Connell's book, first published by Oxford University Press in 1977, now re-issued and updated for the digital age, elegantly bridges the historical, courtly, playful and poetical elements so mixed in Sir Philip Sidney's life and work in order to give the reader a vibrant picture of the man, his milieu and Renaissance Europe in his time.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Renaissance Maker vii
Notes xv
Chapter I: Sidney’s Conception of Love 1
Notes 29
Chapter II: Sidney’s Conception of Poetry 37
Notes 57
Chapter III: Play and the Courtly Maker 63
Notes 101
Chapter IV: The Making of a Poet 119
Notes 149
Chapter V: Arcadia Re-made 155
Notes 187
Conclusion: Honouring the Heavenly Maker 197
Notes 202
Bibliography                                                  204
Index                                                             219
Maps
1. Map of the Roman Empire by Abraham Ortelius,
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1579                    142-3
2. Map of Ancient Greece by Abraham Ortelius,
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1579                   182-3

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: a life in poetry • Elizabethan court life • Renaissance ideas • Sir Philip Sidney
• ISBN-10: 0-9997009-1-X / 099970091X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9997009-1-4 / 9780999700914