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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... final scene, Alexander willingly surrenders his love to a man more in keeping with Campaspe's station. Lyly's self-contained world retains its set boundaries, just as the language retains all emotion within its strict management. It is ...
... final assessment of Peele depends to a large extent on what he judges to be the particular construction, tone, and dramatic efficacy of Peele's rhetoric and poetic. In his final analysis, Peele remains for Cheffaud more of a poet than a ...
... final act transforms the whole play into a kind of epideictic performance to which its various elements are subsidiary. Paris' choice is ultimately irrelevant, because love, majesty, and wisdom are unified and reconciled in the person ...
... final damning judgement is once again based on what he sees as the play's failure to portray character: L'analyse des caractères dont nous nous soucions presque exclusivement, fait trop manifestement défaut dans la "Bataille d'Alcazar ...
... final play , David and Bethsabe . Peele , he remarks , is interested in the sensual beauty which certain situations offer , and festoons his scenes with a garland of descriptions of exotic perfumes and colour . The playwright ...
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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 |