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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... show how rhetoric is synthesized in an overall artistic experience which brings together rhetoric, theatrical display, character, morality, and audience response. In one sense the study of rhetoric can be seen as essentially the ...
... show the process. 49 Wolfgang Clemen, English Tragedy before Shakespeare: The Development of Dramatic Speech, trans. by T. S. Dorsch (London: Methuen, 1961). 50 Ibid., p. 23. 51 Ibid., pp. 48-49. 52 Ibid., pp. 51-54. 53 Ibid., p. 62. 23.
... show the process of decision making, but are usually concerned simply with the announcement of plans; Review of the Situation-speeches, which aim to clarify the action to the audience; Conversion-speeches, whereby one character attempts ...
... show like vengeance upon the bodie of that your sonne . . . tis not the Crowne that I come for, sweete father, because I am unworthie, and those vilde and reprobate company I abandon, & utterly abolish their company 58 Ibid., p. 53. for ...
... shows , including court revels , all of which Peele was especially adept at composing ; and that of the learned tradition of the schools and universities , with all its rhetorical sophistication and moral thematicism , with which both ...
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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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