Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Victor Skretkowicz joined the Department of English at the University of Dundee in 1978, and remained there until 2009.Elisabeth Chaghafi is a Lecturer in English at Tübingen University.J. B. Lethbridge is a Lecturer emeritus at Tübingen University.

• 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 ArcadiaThe First Book The Second Book The Third Book AppendicesI. Eclogues from the 1590 edition II. Dedication from the Old Arcadia III. Evidence against T IV. New Arcadia – Rhetorical Figures CommentaryThe 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 TablesGeneral Index to Introduction and Commentary

'This volume is the new standard.'—ChoiceReprinted 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'J. B. Lethbridge and Elisabeth Chagafi, in their revisions to Skretkowicz’s first edition, make the New Arcadia legible again to students and scholars in the twenty-first century. This elegantly designed volume… gives the New Arcadia a new look and life.'—Sue Starke, Renaissance Quarterly