| Display title | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia is an English prose romance, a very early novel set in the quasi-mythological utopia and Greek province Arcadia. Sidney wrote it for his sister the Countess of Pembroke, leading to its full title The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. The original version, known as the 'Old' Arcadia, was only circulated in manuscript among Sidney's family and friends. He later set about revising it, making it longer and more elaborate, but this project was interrupted in mid-sentence by his death. In 1590, this 'New' Arcadia was published, followed in 1593 with a hybrid version which patched together the completed sections of the New and the ending of the Old. This is widely agreed not to have been a success. In 1911 the original 'Old' version was rediscovered and published. Its popularity hasn't endured into this century, but it was a smash hit in the late sixteenth century and influenced Shakespeare and other writers. |