Charactonymic structures in Sidney's 'Arcadias.' (Philip Sidney)

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Philip Sidney's charactonymic structure or process for naming characters in 'Arcadia' is analyzed. Based on the analogy of Ferdinand de Saussure in which he compares chess with language, Sidney's characters appear to have followed a structuralist form in which the identity of the character is dictated by the function in the narrative. This could account for Sidney's deferral of the revision of 'Arcadia' which would create stories for the new characters mentioned in the original text which would have to be based on their names.

"We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to ...

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