The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance SensibilityUniversal-Publishers, 1999 - 358 Seiten This work is concerned with the evaluation of rhetoric as an essential aspect of Renaissance sensibility. It is an analysis of the Renaissance world viewed in terms of literary style and aesthetic. Eight plays are analysed in some detail: four by George Peele: The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of Paris; and four by Christopher Marlowe: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part One, Dr Faustus and Edward II. The work is thus partly a comparative study of two important Renaissance playwrights; it seeks to establish Peele in particular as an important figure in the history and evolution of the theatre. Verbal rhetoric is consistently linked to an analysis of the visual, so that the reader/viewer is encouraged to assess the plays holistically, as unified works of art. Emphasis is placed throughout on the dangers of reading Renaissance plays with anachronistic expectations of realism derived from modern drama; the importance of Elizabethan audience expectation and reaction is considered, and through this the wider artistic sensibility of the period is assessed. |
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... Approaches / 164 Chapter Eight: Dido Queen of Carthage: Mortals versus Gods and the Ethos / Delectatio Divide / 197 Chapter Nine: Ethical Self-Creation in Tamburlaine Part One / 223 Chapter Ten: Doctor Faustus and the Tragedy of Delight ...
... approach to their dramas. This combination of linguistic dexterity in poetry, rhetoric and theatre tends to work against a realism viewed either as situational or psychological. This is why throughout this work we insist on looking at ...
... approach on this point, I have felt it necessary to evaluate in some detail some of the chief critics of Marlowe and Peele. Before we do this, however, it is necessary to remind the reader of some of the rhetorical and linguistic ...
... approach to the characters of Peele's drama. Although he admits that the chief virtue of The Arraignment is in its spectacle and the harmonious beauty of its language, he nevertheless looks for a psychological penetration which belongs ...
... approach is once again never far from the surface. He goes on to say that the characters of the main action are stock types befitting a romanesque play, and if there is no subtle analysis, it is only fitting, because we do not really ...
Inhalt
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David and Bethsabe and the Clash between Ethos and Delectatio | 100 |
The Arraignment of Paris Court Ritual and the Resolution | 134 |
Christopher Marlowe Critical Approaches | 164 |
Dido Queen of Carthage Mortals versus Gods and the Ethos | 197 |
Ethical SelfCreation in Tamburlaine Part One | 223 |
Doctor Faustus and the Tragedy of Delight | 266 |
Edward II The Emergence of Realism and the Emptiness | 303 |
Conclusion | 323 |
Bibliography | 341 |
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |