The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Sir Philip Sidney's sprawling pastoral romance sends disguised princes into a green world of shepherds, love and danger, blending adventure, poetry and courtly ideals in one of the great prose works…

At a glance Two young princes, shipwrecked and love-struck, disguise themselves and slip into a… So begins one of the most ambitious fictions of Elizabethan England. What it's about The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia follows the intertwined fortunes of… Sidney wrote it for his sister, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and the book bears…

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia follows the intertwined fortunes of princes Pyrocles and Musidorus as they pursue two royal sisters through a landscape of shepherds, tournaments, captivity and reversal.