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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... present throughout his dramatic output, particularly in the earlier dramas. But the exigencies of the court theatre made the forging of long speeches, in which euphuism is best displayed, less appropriate. Instead, Lyly often uses a ...
... present in Senecan tragedy. This is because Gorboduc has an overwhelming didactic function: it is indeed a ' "Mirror for Magistrates" in dramatic form'.53 The characters are merely mouthpieces for certain points of view, and both the ...
... present in the popular drama. The expression of emotion, instead of being artificial and highly wrought, can at times achieve a simple human pathos far surpassing anything of its kind in the classical tragedies. This is sometimes ...
... present-day expectations can distort the evaluation of a writer's work. I am not suggesting that Cheffaud's observations on Peele's style are invalid in themselves, or that he is wrong to recognize our (i. e. present-day) ...
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Inhalt
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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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