Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Arcadia is James Shirley's dramatization of the prose romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney — one expression of the enormous influence that Sidney's work exercised during the 17th century. Shirley's stage version was first published in 1640.The 1640 quarto was published by the booksellers John Williams and Francis Eglesfield. The title page attributes the play to Shirley, and states that the play was acted by \"her Majesty's servants,\" that is Queen Henrietta's Men, at the Phoenix playhouse, i.e. the Cockpit Theatre. Alone among modern scholars, Alfred Harbage has disputed the attribution to Shirley.The play has been characterized as \"typical Fletcherian dramatic romance, slight of characterization, improbable of plot, but full of unexpected turns, and pretty sentiment, and poetic charm....\" Shirley scholars have disagreed on the significance of the play in the dramatist's canon: Schelling considered it an anomaly with no larger impact, while Nason thought it represented Shirley's \"complete acceptance of romanticism.\""@en }
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- The_Arcadia_(play) abstract "The Arcadia is James Shirley's dramatization of the prose romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney — one expression of the enormous influence that Sidney's work exercised during the 17th century. Shirley's stage version was first published in 1640.The 1640 quarto was published by the booksellers John Williams and Francis Eglesfield. The title page attributes the play to Shirley, and states that the play was acted by \"her Majesty's servants,\" that is Queen Henrietta's Men, at the Phoenix playhouse, i.e. the Cockpit Theatre. Alone among modern scholars, Alfred Harbage has disputed the attribution to Shirley.The play has been characterized as \"typical Fletcherian dramatic romance, slight of characterization, improbable of plot, but full of unexpected turns, and pretty sentiment, and poetic charm....\" Shirley scholars have disagreed on the significance of the play in the dramatist's canon: Schelling considered it an anomaly with no larger impact, while Nason thought it represented Shirley's \"complete acceptance of romanticism.\"".