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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... aware of each other's works. I have chosen Marlowe and Peele as representatives of this Elizabethan drama, because both are writers of acknowledged quality. In addition, both wrote a series of dramas which demonstrate a continuous ...
... aware of the dangers of a concentration on the figures of speech alone. Erasmus' De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo, usually known as De copia, was one of the central grammar school texts of the period.10 And though De ...
... aware of the vast potentialities of human speech . The opening line of the above quote sounds a clarion call to all would - be orators , writers , and poets : ' The speech of man is a magnificent and impressive thing when it surges ...
... aware of it. And after this there comes the further ploche on 'pardon', with which the emotional intensity reaches its peak. Henry's speech, in fact, begins as justification, modulates to petition, and then, with the apparent failure of ...
... aware of both popular and learned traditions , as well as the complexities of their interaction . The classical , rhetorical training of the schools and universities was of paramount importance , but it was not the sole influence on the ...
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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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