“He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”
About Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586
In the pantheon of Elizabethan literature, few figures embody the Renaissance ideal as completely as Sir Philip Sidney. Born into privilege on November 30, 1554, at Penshurst Place in Kent, Sidney would live only thirty-one years, yet his brief existence would illuminate the literary landscape of England with such…