The Sidney, Philip 1554-1586 creator Bellings, Richard 1613-1677 Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of 1568?-1640 Baker, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) 1869-1941 text utu 2023 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Philip Sidney is a prose pastoral romance written towards the end of the 16th century. This ambitious work blends idealized shepherd life with dramatic tales of jousts, political intrigue, kidnappings, and battles. When a duke receives an ominous oracle predicting stolen daughters and a usurped throne, he retreats to a pastoral lodge—hoping to escape fate. Sidney significantly revised and expanded his original version before his death, creating two major texts that scholars call the Old and New Arcadia. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countess_of_Pembroke%27s_Arcadia Release date is 2023-05-24 an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer Originally published: United Kingdom: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1907 Pastoral literature, English PR United Kingdom: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1907 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006055311 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70854 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006055311 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70854 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134634.0 70854