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 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 of our playwrights were familiar . It was the ...
... Peele in more general studies of Elizabethan literature, as Leonard Ashley proves by his extensive list of notes and references in his George Peele.65 I have chosen to begin, however, with the well known and seminal work on Peele by ...
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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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