Philip Sidney: A Double Life
- ISBN-10
- 1448104564
- ISBN-13
- 9781448104567
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-10-31
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Alan Stewart
Description
Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her favourite, Leicester, he was tipped for high office - and even to inherit the throne. But Sidney soon found himself caught up in the intricate politics of Elizabeth's court and forced to become as Machiavellian as everyone around him if he was to achieve his ambitions. Against a backdrop of Elizabethan intrigue and the battle between Protestant and Catholic for predominance in Europe, Alan Stewart tells the riveting story of Philip Sidney's struggle to suceed. Seeing that his continental allies had a greater sense of his importance that his English contamporaries, Philip turned his attention to Europe. He was made a French baron at seventeen, corresponded with leading foreign scholars, considered marriage proposals from two princesses and, at the time of his tragically early death, was being openly spoken of as the next ruler of the Netherlands.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
By Philip SidneyThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose...
-
Sir Philip Sidney
By Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney, whose life was tragically cut short at thirty-one, is now regarded as one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan era. A contemporary of Shakespeare, he...
-
Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640
By H. R. WoudhuysenThis is the first modern study of the production and circulation of manuscripts during the English Renaissance.
-
Sir Philip Sidney: 1586 and the Creation of a Legend
By Dominic Baker-Smith, Arthur F. Kinney, Jan Adrianus van DorstenSir Philip Sidney: 1586 and the Creation of a Legend
-
Sir Philip Sidney: The Maker's Mind
By Dorothy ConnellMaking use of a new appreciation of Sidney's proto-novel The Old Arcadia (1580) and a rare 1579 letter newly discovered by this famous Elizabethan courtier, poet and writer, Dr...
-
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
By Philip Sidney"A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence.
-
Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadia
By Marcus Selden GoldmanSir Philip Sidney and the Arcadia
-
The Making of Sir Philip Sidney
By Edward BerryThis is a book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Sidney, and is likely to appeal to both students and scholars of Sidney, as well as to those wishing to understand the cultural events that shaped this central ...
-
Sir Philip Sidney, Cultural Icon
By R. HillyerThis study analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's reputation from his own day to the present by discussing his reception in the work of authors as diverse in time and type as Sir Fulke Greville, Christopher Hill, Charles Lamb, Edmund Waller, and ...
-
Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
By Professor Robert E StillmanUsing Leedham-Green's work, which surveys 1 76 inventories of sixteenth-century books, Ake Bergvall has ranked the 50 most commonly owned authors in ... Gunnar Sorelius and Michael Srigley (Uppsala: Norstedts Tryckeri AB, 1994), p.