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The Father’s Living Monument: Textual Progeny and th e Birth of the Author in Sidney ’s Arcadias by Andrew Fleck Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth th e marriage t ables1 . lthough this essay’s epigraph comes from William Shakes peare, its subject is the emergence of a new underst anding of author- Ashi p in one small group’s “thrifty ” post mortem efforts to con- t rol the traces surrounding another Elizab ethan figure, Sir Philip Sid- ney.2 At the heart of these contentious efforts to claim authority for one version of his Arcadia over others stands a document attached to every printed edition of it: Sidney’s tender dedication of his romance to his sis- ter, Mary Herbert, the countess of Pembroke. But just as the meats that welcome Horatio to Elsinore limn the space betw een melancholy and mirth, the dedication that precedes Sidney’s text and the paratextual wranglin g that hap pens in the fraught posth umous print ing of differen t texts under the banner of the Arcadia signify differen tly in Sidney’s life and in his death. 3 Out of this agon on the threshold of Sidney’s Arcadias, in
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 16, 2010
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