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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... reason, we have confined ourselves to an analysis of four plays in each writer's canon: Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of Paris; and Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part ...
... reason.27 Although Wilson, like Cicero and his successor Quintilian, values eloquence highly, he is concerned, like ... reasons, the language of the English Renaissance -- or at least that used in the circles of the higher classes ...
... reason: ''My case were light Hephestion, and not worthy to be called love, if reason were a remedy, or sentences could salve, that sense cannot conceive.'42 Yet Alexander himself turns out not to be a really passionate lover, for he, as ...
... reasons for his view. Here he is explicit in voicing his desire for psychological realism and character development. He is comparing Peele with Seneca, whom he sees as an influence on the play: Peele, malheureusement, n'a pas su en ...
... reason why Peele should have intended it. Yet this insistence on a psychological approach does not rest solely with Cheffaud. Leonard Ashley, in his 1970 treatment of Peele's life and works, in writing on David and Bethsabe, speaks of ...
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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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