{"id":649,"date":"2018-04-30T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/?page_id=649"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:30:42","slug":"let-your-songs-be-still-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/let-your-songs-be-still-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Your Songs Be Still of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love and writing are bound together for the Sidney family at Penshurst. The lovers in Wroth\u2019s play Love\u2019s Victory<\/em> are counselled:<\/p>\n

Let your songs be still of love;
\nWrite no satires which may prove
\nLeast offensive to his name.
\nIf you do you will but frame
\nWords against your selves, and lines
\nWhere his good, and your ill shines. (Act 2 Scene 3).<\/p>\n

Students from Simon Langton Girls\u2019 School (Canterbury) learned about the craft of writing from calligrapher Els Van Den Steen, when they visited Penshurst on 17 April 2017.<\/p>\n

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Els, students and quills<\/p><\/div>\n

Els Van Den Steen brought along examples of the transcriptions by her calligraphy students of poems by the Sidney circle relating to love and fortune which will be added to and compiled as a \u2018Book of Fortunes,\u2019 an important prop in Wroth\u2019s play Love\u2019s Victory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alison Findlay talks to students about images of writing in sonnets by Lady Mary Wroth and her uncle Sir Philip Sidney, from the opening sonnet of Sidney\u2019s Astrophell and Stella<\/em> where Nature commands \u2018Look in thy heart and write\u2019 to the end of Wroth\u2019s collection of sonnets Pamphilia to Amphilanthus<\/em> where she signs off with the lines<\/p>\n

Leaue the discourse of Venus, and her sonne
\nTo young beginners, and their braines inspire
\nWith storyes of great Loue, and from that fire,
\nGet heat to write the fortunes they haue wonne.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love and writing are bound together for the Sidney family at Penshurst. The lovers in Wroth\u2019s play Love\u2019s Victory are counselled: Let your songs be still of love; Write no satires which may prove Least offensive to his name. If you do you will but frame Words against your selves, and lines Where his good, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7IR4b-at","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}