Austere and Manly Attributes
Patrick Collinson, 3 April 1997
The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ and Elizabethan Politics
by Blair Worden.
Yale, 406 pp., £40, October 1996,0 300 06693 7 Show More
by Blair Worden.
Yale, 406 pp., £40, October 1996,
“... happens in this favola intreccio. Arcadia, part of a vaguely defined Greek confederation, has for long been peacefully governed by Duke Basilius, who, misled by the Delphic oracle, goes against the advice of his trusty counsellor, Philamax, and abdicates (or takes a year’s pastoral sabbatical), while locking up his daughters, ... ”