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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... effect when he is speaking in an assumed role than when he speaks in his own character.25 Here the close links between a rhetorical ethos and dramatic character creation are clearly recognized. An education system loaded with rhetoric ...
... effect, in other words, on isocolon and parison. Patterning is further intensified by the use of repetition, sometimes of whole words, sometimes of endings ( homoioteleuton), sometimes of leading consonants ( alliteration), the latter ...
... effect is one of carefully controlled, reasoned thought. It gives the impression of a mind working strictly within carefully constructed bounds which it has set for itself. It is assured, in perfect control of its ideas. It is meant to ...
... effect of 'clarifying meaning', rather than 'enhancing effect'. But this distinction is by no means clear cut. Surely, in a Counsel-speech, for instance, clarity is a necessary part of effective counsel (Ibid., pp. 64- 66). 55 Ibid., p ...
... effect on his plays. It would not. 64 Of particular interest with regard to the language and rhetoric of Peele is the following: P. Nelle, Das Wortspiel in englischem Drama des 16. Jahrhunderts (Halle, 1900), which is concerned with ...
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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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