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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... Gods and the Ethos / Delectatio Divide / 197 Chapter Nine: Ethical Self-Creation in Tamburlaine Part One / 223 Chapter Ten: Doctor Faustus and the Tragedy of Delight / 266 Chapter Eleven: Edward II: The Emergence of Realism and the ...
... god-like qualities, as well as the nature of his fall from the nobility of war to the effeminacy of love. The image of the barbed steeds who dim the sun is again hyperbolic, so much so that it suggests the language of Marlowe's ...
... God from Heaven": Ritual Speech in English Renaissance Drama' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri, 1992; abstract in Dissertation Abstracts, 54 (1993), 1813-A). This latter examines the uses of curses, oaths and ...
... Gods they chaunge for worse. Ambo simul. They that do chaunge etc. Oenone. Faire and faire, etc. Paris. Faire and faire, etc. Thy love is faire, etc. Oenone. My love can pype, my love can sing, My love can manie a pretie thing, And of ...
... God of warre , And cals the furies from Avernus crags , To range and rage , and vengeance to inflict , Vengeance on this accursed Moore for sinne ... ( 1.30 ) Again , Peele gains power through a careful varying of metre and use 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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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |