Description: Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593), well known to Shakespeare, was the most popular piece of original English fiction and poetry for over two hundred years. This restored and modernized text has been specially designed for contemporary readers.
Brief description: Charles Ross, a graduate of Harvard College and a former Fulbright-Hays Scholar in Italy, is Professor of English and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Purdue University. He studied Sidney at the University of Chicago with Professor William A. Ringler, Jr. His books include the first English translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's romance Orlando Innamorato and a verse translation of L. Paninius Statius's Thebaid. He is the author of The Custom of the Castle from Malory to Macbeth as well as Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare. His editorial work includes two volumes of the California Lectura Dantis, a collection titled Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace, and two Modern Fiction Studies special issues, one on Vladimir Nabokov, the other titled Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Chinese Fiction. In 2016 he served as chair of Modern Language Association's selection committee for the Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work.