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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... Theatrical Display / 69 Chapter Five: David and Bethsabe and the Clash between Ethos and Delectatio / 100 Chapter Six: The Arraignment of Paris: Court Ritual and the Resolution of Paradox / 134 Chapter Seven: Christopher Marlowe ...
... theatrical display, character, morality, and audience response. In one sense the study of rhetoric can be seen as essentially the recovery of lost knowledge. This is why a knowledge of the pedagogical concerns of the Elizabethans and ...
... theatrical construct. Such presentation is relevant to our enquiry in that it allows Peele to reinforce the epideictic rhetoric of blame with the theatrical presentation of dark deeds. The Presenter's speech and the dumb show at the ...
... theatrical plot and the evidence of the text. Where there are pointed brackets, he has made more extensive changes in content and placing to fit the description of the dumb shows in the theatrical plot. 125 This line is reminiscent of a ...
... theatrical core around which the whole play is built. At the beginning their function is chiefly one of exposition, a visual expansion and clarification of the extremely compressed narration of the Presenter. Subsequent dumb shows ...
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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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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |