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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... thoughts and words pouring out in 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 ...
... thoughts and words pouring out in rich abundance . ' Here is the spirit of the Renaissance as regards language : a sense of ... thought . ' ( Terence Cave , The Cornucopian Text : Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance ( Oxford ...
... thought. It gives the impression of a mind working strictly within carefully constructed bounds which it has set for itself. It is assured, in perfect control of its ideas. It is meant to convey decorum and to advance the ethical ...
... thought , which will never hang together . Larissa . You have undone that well . Cupid . I , because it was never tide well . Tel . To the rest , for she will give you no rest . These two knots are finely untied . Cupid . It was because ...
... thoughts of his confessed love, and instead to take to the field where he belongs. But here the schemes are enlivened by tropes: I can not tel Alexander, whether the reporte be more shameful to be heard, or the cause sorrowfull to be ...
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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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