A young lovelorn shepherd, Silvius pines after the cruel and contemptuous shepherdess Phoebe. Like Orlando early in the play (before Ganymede schools him), Silvius is a perfect example of a “Petrarchan lover,” named so for the poet Petrarch who obsessively penned love
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