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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... play's structure and its dramatic rhetoric reflect this intention. The school practice of the writing of set themes again comes to mind. Moreover, the central question at stake in the play -- whether or not the kingdom should be divided ...
... play from the point of view of Renaissance composition. According to this, it is the function of a work of art to teach ( docere), to delight ( delectare), and to move ( movere). This does not of course preclude detailed psychological ...
... play's verse, comparing it favourably to that of Tamburlaine, by which he recognizes it was extensively influenced. Above all, he recognizes the artistry of Peele's subtle schematicism, and the part it plays in the larger structure of ...
... 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" pour nous permettre de souscrire au jugement favorable que les ...
... play in general terms, he sees it as lacking in psychological subtlety. The question we ask is that even if this is so, need we condemn the play as a whole because of it? Again, we must try to place ourselves in the position of an ...
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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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