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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... says that the 'right' 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 ...
... say, the nineteenth century. Shepherd tells us that that the aim of Elizabethan rhetoric was 'to say the right thing to a particular audience to achieve the required aim.'4 It was an essentially public technique, therefore, rather than ...
... say about the vita contemplativa so beloved of the Scholastics . In his view , such a life could not lead men to civilization : ' To me , at least , it does not seem possible that mute and voiceless wisdom could have turned men suddenly ...
... says that the poet is the neerest Borderer upon the Orator , and expresseth all his vertues , though he be tyed more to numbers ; is his equall in ornament , and above him in his strengths ... Because in moving the minds of men and ...
... says, 'est pauvre en couleurs et nuances'.79 He complains that the characters are stock types,80 and that though the goddesses reveal distinctive traits derived from classical legend, even in their case, 'l'évolution de leurs sentiments ...
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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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