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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... Press, 1965), pp. 102-03. 2 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke, 2 vols (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1944). 3 Sister Miriam Joseph, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of 3.
... Use of the Arts of Language (New York: Hafner, 1947). 4 Simon Shepherd, Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theatre (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986), p. 4. 5 Shepherd, p. 4. 8 The five parts of classical rhetoric are inventio (the 4.
... Press , 1990 ) , p . 110 . 7 Ac mihi quidem videtur hoc nec tacita nec inops dicendi sapientia perficere potuisse ut homines a consuetudine subito converteret et ad diversas rationes uitae traduceret . ( De inventione , 1. 2. 3 , in ...
... Quintilian, ed. by H. E. Butler, Loeb Classical Library, 4 vols (London: Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921), III, 8, Prologue, 15-16). 10 Baldwin, II, 176-96. 11 Desiderius Erasmus, De duplici copia 6.
... D. F. S. Thomson and others (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974-), XXIV: Literary and Educational Writings 2: 'De copia' 'De ratione studii', ed. by Craig R Thompson (1978), pp. 280-659 (p. 295). 13 Cave , pp . 8-9 . 14 Timber ; 7.
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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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