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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... fact, quite a few persons of no real education or understanding have, heaven help us, undertaken to give instruction in this very subject, and these, while professing a mastery of copia, have merely revealed their own total lack of it ...
... fact, recognized in classical times, as Quintilian's words testify: And as their [the client's] plea would awaken yet greater pity if they urged it with their own lips, so it is rendered to some extent all the more effective when it is ...
... fact, minimal. But as we are at pains to point out in this work, neither playwright nor audience regarded psychological subtlety as in any. 40 Ibid., 2. 2. 68. 41 Ibid., 2. 2. 73. 42 Ibid., 2. 2. 77. 43 Ibid., 2. 2. 91. 48 Thomas of ...
... fact, in early pre-Shakespearean drama, there was a veritable growth in the multiplicity of set speech types. The three-fold division of classical rhetoric was further fragmented by the native English tradition, that is by the pageantry ...
... fact, begins as justification, modulates to petition, and then, with the apparent failure of his plea, becomes a kind of lament in which self-apostrophe is used: 'Harry, now thrice unhappie Harry.' The speech finally becomes a kind of ...
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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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