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 ...

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 ...

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.

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