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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... beginnings of the witty repartee and sophisticated comic rhetoric which led to the comedies of Shakespeare, save that the language lacks the variety which is one of the requirements for the development of individual character. The ...
... beginning of his reigne, Iohn Winchcomb, a broad cloth Weaver, dwelet in Newberie, a towne in Barkshire: who for that he was a man of mery disposition, & honest conversation, was wondrous well- beloved of Riche and Poore, specially ...
... beginning and the same ending: 'she [fortune] treades us under foote, and we know it not: she speakes in our eares, & we heare her not: she cries aloud, and we understand her not.' The impression given is one of a set lament. From a ...
... beginning with The Arraignement of Paris and ending with the poems. With regard to The Arraignment, he is impressed by the 'harmonious grace' of the piece: 'Une aussi sèche analyse ne saurait rendre justice à la grâce harmonieuse de la ...
... beginning of each act take on an increasingly didactic function as exposition shifts towards allegory. Moreover, whether expository or allegorical, they are interpreted for us by the speech of a presenter, through whose words we are ...
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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 |