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Article: "A pleasant and terrible reverence": maintenance of majesty in Sidney's 'New Arcadia.' (Philip Sidney)
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- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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Launching into his most dangerous literary performance--his letter urging Elizabeth not to marry Francis, duke of Alencon--Sir Philip Sidney addresses the queen routinely, as his "Most feared and beloved, most sweet and gracious Sovereign."(1) This salute, attributing quasi-divine powers of justice and mercy to the monarch, is thoroughly conventional and apparently unremarkable. Yet while another author might invoke the formula mechanically, then proceed to the matter at hand, Sidney's use of it foreshadows both the arguments he will employ within the letter and a central concern of the New Arcadia.
Written late in 1579 to counter Elizabeth's belief that marrying ...
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