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Philip Sidney and the Indispensable Parenthesis

Original: Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham pra

An essay by Florence Hazrat explores how the parenthesis, a punctuation mark Erasmus called 'little moons' and George Puttenham praised as a 'figure of tolerable disorder', was embraced by Elizabethan writer Philip Sidney. The piece, published via Project Gutenberg, examines how Sidney used parentheses not as a minor device but as an essential tool of his prose and poetry, despite Renaissance warnings that they be used sparingly and not 'too thick'.

Why now: Book lovers and literary history readers are engaging with a fresh essay on the overlooked history of parentheses in Renaissance writing.

Philip SidneyErasmusGeorge PuttenhamFlorence HazratProject Gutenberg

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• Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. By Florence Hazrat… · gutenberg_org · 9

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