Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. Preserving the basic plot, New Arcadia adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions, demonstrating Sidney's brilliance as a prose writer.
This edition of the New Arcadia is the first in nearly four decades, preserving the text of Victor Skretkowicz' celebrated 1987 edition, whilst making the text accessible through modern spelling and supplementing it with a substantially expanded scholarly commentary, an updated glossary, and additional long notes on the book's history and Sidney's use of rhetorical devices, as well as his contributions to the English language.

Victor Skretkowicz joined the Department of English at the University of Dundee in 1978, and remained there until 2009.
Elisabeth Chaghafi is a Lecturer in English at Tübingen University.
J. B. Lethbridge is a Lecturer emeritus at Tübingen University.

General Preface
Preface to the 1987 Edition
References and Abbreviations
General Introduction
Textual Introduction
List of Sigla
The History of Arcadia in Print
Arcadia Editions Before 1700
Rhetorical Figures in the New Arcadia
The New Arcadia
The First Book
The Second Book
The Third Book
Appendices
I. Eclogues from the 1590 edition
II. Dedication from the Old Arcadia
III. Evidence against T
IV. New Arcadia - Rhetorical Figures
Commentary
The First Book
The Second Book
TheThird Book
The Eclogues
Glossary
Index of Characters
Index of Other Names
Index of Places
Index of First Lines of Poems
Genealogical Tables
General Index to Introduction and Commentary