The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance SensibilityUniversal-Publishers, 1999 - 358 páginas 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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... Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David and Bethsabe, and The Arraignment of Paris; and Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part One, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II). But the primary reason is that ethical rhetoric has ...
... Peele's Edward I, for instance, have their genesis in this kind of play. These were thoroughly dramatic. 54 This is not a view taken by Clemen, who regards amplification in Gorboduc as 'dispassionate' (Clemen, p. 64), and therefore ...
... Peele's oeuvre, and in particular with regard to the poetic and dramatic qualities of his language. Throughout his work, Cheffaud makes significant comments with regard to Peele's use of language and its effect on his plays. It would ...
... Peele depends to a large extent on what he judges to be the particular construction, tone, and dramatic efficacy of Peele's rhetoric and poetic. In his final analysis, Peele remains for Cheffaud more of a poet than a dramatist, and ...
... Peele's ability to construct a logical speech by a chain of secondary propositions leading to a logical and concise conclusion.77 Cheffaud is particularly effusive in his praise of Peele's handling of metrics. What strikes him, and ...
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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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