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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... attempt to demonstrate in as thorough a manner as possible how integral was the part that a knowledge of rhetoric played in the composition of Elizabethan drama generally. This second aim is connected with my choice of playwrights. This ...
... attempt to show how rhetoric is synthesized in an overall artistic experience which brings together rhetoric, theatrical display, character, morality, and audience response. In one sense the study of rhetoric can be seen as essentially ...
... attempt, as best we can, and without losing an historical perspective, to view and read the plays with the expectations and predilections of a contemporary audience. Bearing this in mind, we begin our analysis with Peele's The Battle of ...
... attempt to merge meaning with the replication of the sound effect which the word attempts to define. We are now told that 'Nemisis upon her doubling drum' (2. 287) and 'Abdelmunens grieved ghost' (2. 294) rouse the Furies: [Lying behind ...
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Edward I The Rhetoric of Ethos and Theatrical Display | 69 |
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 |