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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... emotional pleading, of forensic oratory. Or it could invoke the characteristics of a certain genus of character, using ethos rather than pathos. Alternatively, it could mix both kinds. Richard Rainolde, in his English adaptation of ...
... emotional 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 ...
... emotions the tropes generate are severely circumscribed by these carefully crafted comparisons and contrasts. In ... emotion within its strict management. It is not, then, that Lyly does not use tropes, but that they are subordinated to ...
... emotional intensity. But the speech which follows falls under the regimen of schemes: parison, isocolon, and ... emotion under such tight reigns of logos. Yet such language is often embedded in the realistic narrative of which Deloney is ...
... emotional intensity and emotional development present in Senecan tragedy. This is because Gorboduc has an overwhelming didactic function: it is indeed a ' "Mirror for Magistrates" in dramatic form'.53 The characters are merely ...
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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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