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Philip Sidney biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sir Philip Sidney

Author Name:

Sir Philip Sidney

Born As:

Philip Sidney

Other Names:

Sir Philip Sidney

Born:

30 Nov 1554

Died:

17 Oct 1586




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Writer, poet, soldier and courtier                          
Selected Works:

The Lady of May - a masque written and performed for Queen Elizabeth in 1578 or 1579.
Astrophel and Stella - Composed in the early 1580s. The sonnets were well-circulated in manuscript before the first pirated edition was printed in 1591. In 1598 an authorised edition was published.

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - The Arcadia. Published in the sixteenth century, the narrative follows the Greek model.

William Shakespeare borrowed from it for the Gloucester subplot of King Lear; parts of it were also dramatized by John Day and James Shirley. Arcadia exists in two significantly different versions. Sidney wrote an early version - The Old Arcadia - There were several early editions of the book. Fulke Greville published the revised version alone, in 1590. The Countess of Pembroke, Sidney's sister, published a version in 1593, which pasted the last two books of the first version onto the first three books of the revision. In the 1621 version, Sir William Alexander provided a bridge to bring the two stories back into agreement. It was known in this cobbled-together fashion until the discovery, in the early twentieth century, of the earlier version.

An Apology for Poetry- also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry - Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583.                          
Mother Lady Mary Dudley
Father Sir Henry Sidney