The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700, 2-Volume Set

Contents: Volume 1: Preface; Overview: Family networks: The Sidneys, Dudleys and Herberts, Michael G. Brennan. Biographies: Sir Henry Sidney, Valerie McGowan-Doyle; Mary Dudley Sidney and her Dudley siblings, Carole Levin and Catherine Medici; Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Stewart; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Margaret P. Hannay; Lettice, Penelope & Dorothy Devereux, and Frances Walsingham Sidney, Grace Ioppolo; Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester, Robert Shephard; Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester, Elizabeth Sidney Manners, Countess of Rutland, and Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret P. Hannay; Robert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, Germaine Warkentin; Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer Smith, Countess of Sunderland, Nadine Akkerman; Algernon Sidney, Jonathan Scott; Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney, and Robert Spencer, second Earl of Sunderland, Michael G. Brennan. The Sidneys in Ireland and Wales: The Sidneys in Ireland, Thomas Herron; The Sidneys and Wales, Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer. The Sidneys and the Continent: The Sidneys and the continent: the Tudor period, Roger Kuin; The Sidneys and the continent: the Stuart period, Michael G. Brennan; The Sidneys and the Arts: The Sidneys and public entertainments, Arthur F. Kinney; The Sidneys and literary patronage, Lisa Celovsky; Penshurst Place and Leicester House, Susie West; The Sidneys and the visual arts, Elizabeth Goldring; The Sidneys and music, Katherine R. Larson. Index. Volume 2: Preface; Overview; The Sidneys and their books, Joseph L. Black. The Sidneys and the Circulation of Their Works in Manuscript and Print: The circulation of the Sidney Psalter, Noel J. Kinnamon; The circulation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Henry R. Woudhuysen; The circulation of writings by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Garth Bond; The circulation of writings by Lady Mary Wroth, Ilona Bell. Prose Romance: Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias, Kenneth Borris; Continuations and imitations of the Arcadia, Clare R. Kinney; Lady Mary Wroth: The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Helen Hackett. Prose: Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of Poesy, Robert E. Stillman; Tudor political theory and Sidneian prose, Joel B. Davis; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: A Discourse of Life and Death, Elaine V. Beilin. Drama: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Antonius, Barry Weller; Lady Mary Wroth: Love's Victory, Alison Findlay. Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella, Danila Sokolov; Sir Robert Sidney's Poetry, Mary Moore; Lady Mary Wroth's poetry, Paul Salzman; The Poetry of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Mary Ellen Lamb; Psalms: Sir Philip Sidney's psalms, Anne Lake Prescott; The psalms of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Danielle Clarke; The influence of Sidney Psalter, Hannibal Hamlin. Conclusion: future directions for Sidney Studies, Mary Ellen Lamb. Index.