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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... poets 'most properly do imitate to teach and delight . . . and delight to move men to take that goodness in hand, which without delight they would fly as from a stranger, and teach, to make them know that goodness where unto they are ...
... poets : ' The speech of man is a magnificent and impressive thing when it surges along like a golden river , with ... poetic. 13 Cave , pp . 8-9 . 14 Timber ; or , Discoveries , in Ben Jonson , ed . by C. H. Herford and others , 10 ...
... poetic drama to a closer synthesis. The texts studied in the grammar schools were many. One of the chief classical texts that Marlowe and Peele would certainly have studied is the pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. This work ...
... poetic and dramatic qualities of his language. Throughout his work, Cheffaud makes significant comments with regard to Peele's use of language and its effect on his plays. It would not. 64 Of particular interest with regard to the ...
... poetic. In his final analysis, Peele remains for Cheffaud more of a poet than a dramatist, and there always remains for him a certain tension between the two. After an initial chapter dealing with Peele's life, Cheffaud proceeds to ...
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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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