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- Title
Friendship in Sidney's Arcadias.
- Authors
MacFaul, Tom
- Abstract
The article explores the virtue of friendship between princes Pyrocles and Musidorus in two versions of the book "Arcadia," by Philip Sidney. It outlines the competition between the two princes as to the relative value of their princesses. It highlights the importance of friendship to the education of rulers. It argues that Sidney's romantic works are the fullest and most successful narrative development of the humanist tradition of ideal friendship, and this ideal is therein stretched to its limits particularly in the revised version of the text. Moreover, it implies that friendship is finally redemptive and it may be a way of escaping from a model of justice.
- Subjects
ROMANTIC friendship; ARCADIA (Book : Sidney); SIDNEY, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586; HUMANISTIC ethics; LITERARY characters; CONDUCT of life; LITERATURE; HUMANISTS; CLASSICAL literature; PRINCES in literature
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2009, Vol 49, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.0.0047