1. Body Politic in Aracadia
... but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. In his letter preceding The Old Arcadia Sidney is quick to dismiss his pastoral romance as an "idle work". Such a comment invites the reader to look past this initial reflection. In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped ... and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbol...
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