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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... Criticism and the Problem of Realism / 31 Chapter Three: The Battle of Alcazar: Epideictic Rhetoric, Morality, and the De Casibus tradition. / 49 Chapter Four: Edward I: The Rhetoric of Ethos and Theatrical Display / 69 Chapter Five ...
... critics of Marlowe and Peele. Before we do this, however, it is necessary to remind the reader of some of the rhetorical and linguistic contexts in which these plays were produced. We can be certain that both Marlowe and Peele, at ...
... critics, therefore, we need to remain alert to what often seems an alien sensibility. Psychological and situational ... criticism of George Peele. CHAPTER TWO George Peele: Criticism and the Problem of Realism 30.
... critics with regard to Peele's oeuvre, and in particular with regard to the poetic and dramatic qualities of his ... Criticism and the Problem of Realism /
... criticism of Edward I is mainly one of structure. The interpolation of the burlesque passages, he argues, deranges the logical order, detracts from the equilibrium and interdependence of the parts, and shatters the dramatic structure of ...
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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 |