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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... course, 'University Wits'), and shared the same cultural space, their works offer opportunities for comparison and contrast which can only help to enliven and sharpen analysis. More specifically, this work concerns itself with ethical ...
... course, is rhetorical in one sense or another: we can find a host of rhetorical figures in Wordsworth, just as we can in, say, Sidney. But to the Elizabethan, who had such a rigorous education in technique, the use of rhetorical art, if ...
... course, we should be able to see how they formed the taste of the time. But there were, of course, other influences essential to the shaping of pre- Shakespearian English drama which need to be taken into account in any assessment of ...
... course, multifarious references to Peele in more general studies of Elizabethan literature, as Leonard Ashley proves by his extensive list of notes and references in his George Peele.65 I have chosen to begin, however, with the well ...
... course preclude detailed psychological portrayal, but neither does it demand it. Moreover, the audience would not have demanded it either. What Cheffaud detects in the Paris-Oenone plot is not so much the result of detailed character ...
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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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