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Teachers' Resource Web Sir Philip Sidney: A Brief Guide Richard Kroll, UCI Dates: November 30, 1554--born. 1573, 1575--Travels on the continent; friendship with Languet. 1578-80?--Writes the old Arcadia. 1579--Gosson's Schoole of Abuse dedicated to Sidney. 1580--In trouble with the Queen; Sidney objects to her projected marriage with 1581-82?--Writes Astrophel and Stella. 1582--Penelope Devereux (Sidney's "Stella") marries Lord Rich. 1583--Sidney marries Frances Walsingham. 1584--Begins the Arcadia. 1585--Appointed Governor of Flushing, the Netherlands. September-October 1586--Shot in the thigh during a battle with the Spanish at February 1587--Accorded a state funeral, unusual for a mere knight. 1590--The new Arcadia published. 1591--Astrophel and Stella published in a pirated edition. 1593--The composite Arcadia (the new version plus Books 3-5 of the old version) 1595--Defence of Poetry published. 1598--Composite Arcadia published with Astrophel and Stella and Certain (Much of this information was taken from Katherine Duncan-Jones, editor of The Old Arcadia. The World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.)
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