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A Sheffield Hallam University Thesis The image of human condition: Sidney's Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue. WOOD, Richard J. Available from the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20563/ A Sheffield Hallam University thesis This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Please visit http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20563/ and http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html for further details about copyright and re-use permissions. L.uai!i!liy a i iu n iiv iiiiu u u ii ww. * .w— Adseits Centra, City Campus Sheffield S1 1WD 102 083 205 3 Sheffietd Hallam University Learning and Information Services Adseits Centm, City Campus Sheffield S1 1WD Re fe r e n c e ProQuest Number: 10701210 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10701210 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 ‘The image of human condition’: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue Richard James Wood A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Sheffield Hallam University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2012 Abstract I read Sidney’s romance, the New Arcadia, in the light of a particular ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant theologian. In doing so, I use a critical paradigm previously only used to discuss Sidney’s Defence o f Poesy. Thus, building on the work of Robert E. Stillman, I narrow the gap that critics, such as Gavin Alexander, have often found between Sidney’s theory and literary practice. Like the Philippists, peculiarly open to the ideas of humanist scholarship, Sidney draws his philosophical precepts from an eclectic mix of sources. These various strands of philosophical, political and theological thought are accommodated within the New Arcadia, which conforms to the kind of literature praised by Melanchthon for its life­ like heterogeneity and its examples of virtue. Sidney’s characters have generally been thought to symbolize a passive form of Christian Stoicism. I contend that they, in fact, respond to their misfortunes in a way that demonstrates an active outlook. Employing the same philosophy, Sidney, both in his letter intervening in Queen Elizabeth’s marriage negotiations and in his politically-interested fiction, arrogates to himself the role of court counsellor. As such, he is a model for his sister and Fulke Greville in then- later roles as literary patron and courtier, respectively. The primary inheritor of Sidney’s political and cultural legacy, Robert Devereux, despite being associated with court factionalism, also draws, I argue, on the optimistic and conciliatory philosophy signified by Sidney’s New Arcadia. Sidney’s romance affirms its author’s piety, in which human fallibility is recognized and tolerated. Amphialus represents Sidney’s ethos most poignantly. An epic, martial figure, Amphialus also participates in the most dishonourable activities in the romance. Through the representation of this apparently irredeemable character, who, nevertheless, will be saved, Sidney displays his faith in God’s Providence and his own salvation. di me tuentur, dis pietas et musa cordi est. (Hor. Carm. I. xvii) Table of Contents: List of Figures v Abbreviations and Procedures vi Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1. ‘She made her courtiers learned’: Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and His Step-dame, Elizabeth. 25 2. ‘Philip has the word and the substance’: a Philippist Reading of Sidney’s New Arcadia. 51 3. ‘If an excellent man should err’: Sir Philip Sidney and Stoical Virtue. 74 4. ‘I am a man; that is to say, a creature whose reason is often darkened with error’: Sir Philip Sidney, Humility and Revising the Arcadia. 95 5. ‘Think nature me a man o f arms did make’?: Conflicted Conflicts in Astrophil and Stella and the New Arcadia. 119 6. ‘The representing o f so strange a power in love’: Sir Philip Sidney’s Legacy of Anti-factionalism. 136 7. ‘Cleverly playing the stoic’: the Earl o f Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and Surviving Elizabeth’s court. 157 Conclusion 184 Bibliography 186 iv List of Figures 1. The title page of Stanislaus Warschewiczki’s Latin edition of Heliodorus’s Aethiopian History (Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1552), unsigned leaf. 2. Foreword to Warschewiczki’s Latin edition of Heliodorus’s Aethiopian History, unsigned leaf. 3. A catoblepta, from the title page of Edward Topsell, The historie of foure-footed heastes (London, 1607). Abbreviations and Procedures Unless otherwise stated in the Bibliography, early modern printed texts are cited from facsimiles in the database Early English Books Online , http://eebo.chadwyck.com. These texts are cited in old-spelling and original typography except where the typographical use of w for w is silently standardized. The archaic typography used in Steuart A. Pears’s The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (1845) has been modernized. References to the Folger Digital Image Collection , to the Perseus Digital Library, to The Literary Encyclopedia, to the University of Basel Special Online Catalogue (Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen) and to Google Books are to those online resources as they stood in July 2012. References to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to the Oxford English Dictionary are to the online editions as they stood at the same date. Manuscript sources are cited using modern typographical conventions, silently standardizing the use of the long s, for example. The dating o f events has been standardized to modem rather than early modern practice, taking the New Year to begin on 1 January rather than 25 March (the Feast o f the Annunciation). Acknowledgements I am grateful for the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council whose full­ time Doctoral Award enabled me to undertake this research. Many thanks are due to Matthew Steggle for his patient and knowledgeable supervision of this thesis; to Lisa Hopkins for her incalculable wisdom in her capacities as supervisor and editor; to the editors Mary Ellen Lamb, Annaliese Connolly, Karen Bamford and Naomi Miller for their helpful observations; to the very many staff and students in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University who have helped me along the way. The support services at Hallam have also been invaluable: Bev Chapman and her colleagues in the Development and Society Graduate School; Paul Stewart and his colleagues in Student and Learning Services; Kate Wilcox of Student Wellbeing; and Alan Pickersgill of Disabled Student Support. Thanks are also due to the staff of the university libraries at Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham and the Shakespeare Institute; and to the staff of the British Library. Particular thanks must also go to Sarah Armstrong for my grounding in Latin. The text itself would not be what it is without the aid of the compendious work of the late Victor Skretkowicz, editor of the Oxford New Arcadia, whom I was privileged to meet in Dundee at the conference in his honour. I am also grateful to Joel Davis for directing me towards the sources of Neostoicism, and to Roger Kuin for sending me a copy of the paper he gave at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, 2008). Material from ‘“She made her courtiers learned”: Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and His Step-dame, Elizabeth’, in Naomi Miller and Karen Bamford, eds., Maternity in Early Modern Romance (forthcoming) appears in Chapter One; similarly, material from “‘If an excellent man should err”: Philip Sidney and Stoical Virtue’, Sidney Journal 26.2 (2008), pp. 33-48, appears in Chapter 3; material from “‘The representing of so strange a power in love”: Philip Sidney’s Legacy of Anti-factionalism’, Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 16 (October 2007), http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-16/woodsidn.htm, appears in Chapter Six; and material from ‘Cleverly playing the stoic’: the Earl o f Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and Surviving Elizabeth’s Court’, in Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connolly, eds., Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming), appears in Chapter Seven. Huge thanks are due to Kate for her unfailing confidence in my completing the task— ‘thou wilt tread, / As with a pilgrim’s reverential thoughts, / The groves o f Penshurst’ (Robert Southey). I am particularly grateful for the support of my family, especially my mother, whose love for Shakespeare we have all inherited. This thesis is dedicated to my grandparents, Barbara and Arthur, who always said, “Do your best”. Introduction This thesis seeks to interpret Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia as an articulation o f a particular ethical outlook: that ethos which has been termed Philippist after the followers of Philip Melanchthon. Biographically speaking, it is well established that Sidney was familiar with the work of Melanchthon and the Philippists.1 The ethical viewpoint that, I argue, the Arcadia articulates, is, naturally, identified with the romance’s author, reflecting his political and religious philosophies, which are, understandably, often also discernible in his real-life public activities.
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