Sir Philip Sidney (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Duncan-Jones
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1554-1586
- Setting: England, France, Germany, The Netherlands
- Principal Characters: Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabeth I, Henry Sidney, Mary Sidney, Herbert Languet, Robert Dudley, Edward de Vere, Penelope Devereux Rich, Frances Walsingham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Literature, Poetry or poets, Catholics or Catholic Church, Duels or dueling, Knights or knighthood, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Monarchy
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Netherlands
In the popular mind, Sir Philip Sidney matches Ophelia’s description of Hamlet as
The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue, sword,
Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion, and the mold of form,
Th’ observed of all observers (Hamlet, III, i).
The romanticizing of Sidney began with his tragic death in 1586 and was already well under way when Fulke Greville told of the mortally wounded knight’s giving his water to a dying soldier; by the nineteenth century, Percy Bysshe Shelley could...
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