Fans of late 16th Century pastoral poetic narrative tragicomedy have been all abuzz anticipating the Broadway arrival of the new song and dance adaptation of a Sir Philip Sidney classic. But ...

It's from Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan courtier, soldier and poet, who died young. At the age of 31, he got hit by a bullet in the Netherlands in 1586 and died at the age of 31.

Imagine if a high official in the presidential administration (who was also the son-in-law of the White House chief of staff) was someone who routinely undertook diplomatic and military missions ...

SIR PHILIP, having exhausted the scanty advantages of Oxford, followed the example of the great Flavius Josephus, and went to Cambridge. The records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion ...

Though shown dressed in a laboratory smock and conducting her own experiments in A Discovery of Witches, Mary Sidney was better known for her work as a poetic translator.An accomplished linguist ...

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Share full article. Jan. 24, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 24, 1887, Page 3 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.