Article: Cecropia and the Church of Antichrist in Sir Philip Sidney's 'New Arcadia.'

Sir Philip Sidney, all agree, actively championed the formation of an international Protestant political and military league throughout his political career and died fighting on behalf of the Protestant "Cause." Yet, the extent to which issues specific to Protestantism (or even to Christianity) receive sustained attention in his most mature and expansive work of original fiction, the revised ("New") Arcadia, remains a subject of controversy among his critics, with most recent scholars concluding, largely on the basis of the book's nominally pre-Christian setting, that they are not direct or central thematic concerns.(1) This article, part of a larger project maintaining the ...

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