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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 21
... rich abundance. Yet the pursuit of speech like this involves considerable risk ... We find that a good many mortal men who make great efforts to achieve this godlike power fall instead into mere glibness, which is both silly and ...
... rich abundance . ' Here is the spirit of the Renaissance as regards language : a sense of transformation , of power , of originality , of creativity . Again , one feels that Marlowe's Tamburlaine is the apotheosis , the materialization ...
... rich source,19 as were other works of Erasmus, such as De conscribendis epistolis.20 But for a systematic outline, with numerous examples on how to enlarge upon a set theme, Aphthonius' Progymnasmata held pride of place.21 This ...
... rich man that daily gathereth riches to riches, and to one bag of money layeth a great sort till it be infinite: so methinks your majesty, not being suffered with so many benefits and gentleness shewed to me afore this time, doth now ...
... rich ceremonial of Mediaeval and Renaissance life.51 Samuel Clemen classifies some of these set speeches as follows: Report-speeches, derived largely from Seneca; Planning-speeches, which serve to apprise the audience of future action ...
Inhalt
1 | |
31 | |
49 | |
69 | |
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 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |