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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... language, for the syntactic and metrical skills of Marlowe and Peele cannot be ignored if we are to take a truly synthesizing approach to their dramas. This combination of linguistic dexterity in poetry, rhetoric and theatre tends to ...
... Language (New York: Hafner, 1947). 4 Simon Shepherd, Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theatre (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986), p. 4. 5 Shepherd, p. 4. 6 Thomas M. Conley, Rhetoric in the European Tradition (Chicago: 4.
... (language) having a double aspect replaces that of two distinct domains, language and thought.' (Terence Cave, The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), p. 21). Seen in this ...
... language, and, in intellectual circles at least, the ideals of the new Humanism; indeed, the two went hand in hand. Just as Cicero had extolled the art of rhetoric above all else,26 so Thomas Wilson, in his 1585 edition of The Arte of ...
... language, based largely on the school rhetorics and influenced to a large extent by the oratorical prose of the Middle Ages,28 which had its basis in the often mechanical application of the classical figures of style. Ciceronian ...
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Edward I The Rhetoric of Ethos and Theatrical Display | 69 |
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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