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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... verse tragedy, however, there is hardly any of this: set speech follows set speech with monotonous regularity. And even these speeches lack the emotional intensity and emotional development present in Senecan tragedy. This is because ...
... verse, which, though it may teach a political moral, fails either to move or to delight. However, this is largely, I believe, due to the sheer length of the speeches, rather to any lack of quality in the verse or language.54 Though this ...
... verse which, though it might lack the imaginative and tropical intensity of a Marlowe, the poeticism of a Peele, or the organic development of a Shakespeare, is relatively unadorned with schemes and which effectively reproduces the ...
... verse was a deliberate rhetorical construct, often conforming to type rather than being a product of individual expression. The combination of rhetorical education and the practice of the higher levels of society, as well as the ...
... Verse Found in the Early Elizabethan Drama', PMLA, 32 (1917), 68-80; G. Lambin, 'Du Bartas et le style de Peele', Revue Anglo-Americaine, 3 (1925), 54-56; G. K. Smart, 'Non-Dramatic Blank Verse in George Peele', Anglia, 61 (1937), 389 ...
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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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