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Philip Sidney and the Disgraced History of the Parenthesis

Original: Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis

The Public Domain Review has published an essay examining Philip Sidney's use of the parenthesis, a punctuation mark once derided as an 'extreme disgrace' in Elizabethan rhetoric. The piece explores how early modern writers viewed parenthetical asides as stylistic failings, and how attitudes toward this now-common punctuation mark shifted over literary history.

Why now: The essay was recently shared on Hacker News, drawing attention to its unusual literary-historical subject.

Philip SidneyPublic Domain ReviewSamuel Pepys

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