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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... praise and blame, for instance, could be developed with reference to the same subject, and the form of the thesis invited arguments for or against the proposition. This cultivation of the ability to take up different argumentative ...
... Praise and Blame in the Plays of Peele and Lyly', Cahiers Elizabéthains, 23 (1983), 15-33. There are also a number of American dissertations on the topic: K. Noble, 'A Study of the Style of George Peele's Dramatic Works' (unpublished ...
... praise of Peele's handling of metrics. What strikes him, and rightly so, is the variety of metre, which ranges from the alexandrine, to short couplets, to blank verse, and to lyrics: Peele y prend un évident plaisir à varier ses mètres ...
... praises the rhetoric in the play in general terms, he sees it as lacking in psychological subtlety. The question we ... praise). Overall, he regards the play as a kind of demonstration of Peele's eclecticism, his ability to imitate and ...
... praises the play's language as harmonious , diverse. Cheffaud is right to point out that these allusions , and therefore the parody , would have been apparent to the Elizabethans . It is in accord with what we said in the last chapter ...
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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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