Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth audiobook.
Genre: poetry
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is Lady Mary Wroth's groundbreaking early modern sonnet sequence, spoken in the voice of Pamphilia, a woman caught between her vow of constancy and the painful knowledge that her beloved, Amphilanthus, is changeable. Through tightly wrought sonnets and interwoven songs, Pamphilia turns the conventions of courtly love inside out: instead of a silent lady adored from afar, she becomes the thinking, desiring, self-questioning center of the story. The poems trace her private battle as she tries to govern passion with reason, protect her dignity in a world of rumor and political display, and make meaning out of longing that refuses to end. Along the way, Wroth explores how love can be both a source of identity and a kind of captivity, especially for a woman whose choices are constrained by court, reputation, and expectation. Intimate, intellectually sharp, and emotionally relentless, this sequence offers a rare, sustained portrait of female interiority, where devotion, jealousy, hope, and endurance collide in language as precise as it is aching.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:29:17) Chapter 02
(00:55:44) Chapter 03
(01:03:56) Chapter 04
(01:17:38) Chapter 05
(01:30:24) Chapter 06
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