Download or read book Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue written by Richard James Wood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and literary practice.