Sidney's (Re)writing of the Arcadia

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Which Hand She Happily Knew: The Genesis of the Arcadia: Working Our Way Backwards Some Inconsistencies within the Revised Version The Eclogues The Ending of the New Arcadia The Difference Between Old and New Arcadia. 2. Under Hidden Forme: The Pastoral Origins of the Arcadia: What is Pastoral? The Influence of Mantuan and Sannazaro Sidney's Eclogues and the Lady of May Sidney's Pastoral Community The Potential of the Pastoral Form. 3. His Precise Method of Oratory: The Speeches the Arcadia: The Influence of Montemayor's Diana The Philosophical Dialogue Sidney's Dialogues Sidney's Monologues From Speech to Narration. 4. As You Shall After Hear: Sidney's Search for a Coherent Plot: Dramatic Unity The Beginning of a Story in the Middle The Inclusion of Things Done Former Time and Other Place Retrospective Narrative the Arcadia The Consequences of Using Retrospective Narratives The Apology for Poetry and the Revisions of the Arcadia Some Repercussions of the More Coherent Plot. 5. As Of A Third Person: Sidney's Voices the Arcadia: The Pastoral Heritage of the Poet's Persona The Overt Narrator of the Old Arcadia The Fate of the Narrator the New Arcadia Narrative Authority the New Arcadia Sidney's Personas the New Arcadia. Conclusion: ...The Conjunction Cannot Be Hurtful: The Arcadia as Sidney's Poetics: The Interaction of Voices Inset Narratives The Relation of Narrators and Their Stories Fictionalization Sidney's Arcadia: Prose Romance or Proto-Novel? Index.