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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... psychological. This is why throughout this work we insist on looking at these plays in a way which is as close as possible to the viewpoint of their particular audiences, for it is only in doing so that we will gain a true assessment of ...
... psychological interest is, in fact, minimal. But as we are at pains to point out in this work, neither playwright nor audience regarded psychological subtlety as in any. 40 Ibid., 2. 2. 68. 41 Ibid., 2. 2. 73. 42 Ibid., 2. 2. 77. 43 Ibid ...
Rhetoric and Renaissance Sensibility Brian B. Ritchie. neither playwright nor audience regarded psychological subtlety as in any way essential . It is the ethical type which matters : Alexander , though seemingly threatening to step ...
... psychological realism of his character portrayal . Muriel Bradbrook identifies two lines of development in Elizabethan drama : that of the gilds , civic processions and public shows , including court revels , all of which Peele was ...
... Psychological and situational realism, when it did occur, was marked, and may not have been appreciated in the same way we recognize and appreciate it today. And though we ought to be on the look-out for such emergent forms of realism ...
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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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