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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... mind, and without this power all the preliminary accomplishments of oratory are as useless as a sword that is permanently kept within its sheath ... it is this which is the chief object of our study, the goal of all our exercises, and ...
... minds of men and stirring of affections ( in which Oratory shewes and especially approves her eminence ) hee chiefly excells.14 12 Interestingly , Cave argues that in Erasmus the two copias coalesce : ' Res and verba slide together to ...
... , Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), 1358b. 17 Baldwin, II, 108-37 18 Ibid., 19 Ibid., pp. 176-96. pp. 138-75. 20 Ibid., pp. 239-87. 23 Joel Altman, The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry 9.
... 23 Joel Altman, The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), pp. 43-44. 24 Rainolde, The Foundacion of Rhetorike, Fol. xlix. 25. .. 11.
... mind towards your grace might as well be declared as the outward face and countenance shall be seen, I would not have tarried the commandment, but have prevented it, nor have been the last to grant but the first to offer it . . . 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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