Sidney's official indirection
Astrophil's "Tragicomedy of love...performed by starlight"
"Darknesse cleare" : seven levels of starlover's ambiguity
The sonneteer's mock encomium of self
The anti-Platonic Platonic monologue
The "Unflattering glass" : Sir Fulke Greville's theory of reader identification and Sidney's "Arcadia"
The irony of the "Eiron" and "Alazon"
Sidney's self-effacement.