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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... arguments, but rhetoric, having as its aim the influencing of people and events in the political and social arenas, requires other strategies. Quintilian makes it plain that elocutio is a vital part of rhetoric in Book 8 of his ...
... argument), arrangement, memory, and delivery. This is the five-fold division of Cicero. And Humanists such as Erasmus were well aware of the dangers of a concentration on the figures of speech alone. Erasmus' De duplici copia verborum ...
... arguments, to be used within each type. There are also sections on the arrangement of speeches as a whole, according to the traditional pattern of exordium, narratio, divisio, confirmatio, refutatio, and conclusio. Book four deals with ...
... arguments on either side of a debatable proposition ( thesis ) , and , finally , a speech for and against a proposed or existing law ( legislatio ) . This text was important in that it not only introduced the student to a variety of ...
... arguments for or against the proposition. This cultivation of the ability to take up different argumentative positions was a vital preparation for the dramatist, for not only did it teach him to create discourses, but also to set up 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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