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Article: Sidney's New Arcadia and the decay of Protestant republicanism.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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[H]is intent and scope was to turn the barren philosophy precepts
into pregnant images of life, and in them, first on the monarch's
part, lively to represent the growth, state and declination of
princes, change of government and laws, vicissitudes of sedition,
faction, succession, confederacies, plantations, with all other errors
or alterations in public affairs; then again, in the subject's case,
the state of favour, disfavour, prosperity, adversity, emulation,
quarrel, undertaking, retiring, hospitality, travel and all other
moods of private fortunes or misfortunes. (1)
Despite sixteenth-century political-theological discourses on obedience ...