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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... spectacle as from poetry. He recognizes that the piece combines pastoral, classical legend, and masque. It is adroit and ingenious, and, above all, it is a brilliant spectacle: Combinant le charme artificiel de la pastorale avec la ...
... spectacle is of primary importance, stock types might be expected: when the playwright is concerned with display he is not so much interested in the subtle nuances of character. There is perhaps a parallel here with the eighteenth ...
... spectacle and the harmonious beauty of its language, he nevertheless looks for a psychological penetration which belongs to a kind of emotional realism. He believes he finds realism in the Paris-Oenone plot. He comes to this conclusion ...
... Spectacle and poetry formed the essence of this drama: not psychology. Cheffaud's attitude towards The Battle of Alcazar reveals the same. 85 Ibid. 86 The story Peele chooses to dramatize affords plenty of opportunity for moral debate in ...
... Spectacle in the Theatre of George Peele',108 she is particularly concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual rhetoric in Peele's plays. Rather than concentrate on a supposed lack of psychological penetration 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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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |