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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... of Alcazar is an entirely different kind of play from The Arraignment of Paris, for instance, and Tamburlaine lies at an enormous distance in all kinds of 1 Chapter One: Introduction: The Rhetorical and Linguistic Context /
... Tamburlaine Part One, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II). But the primary reason is that ethical rhetoric has special significances: it has supreme importance for the building up of stage characters and their interaction, and its dual ...
... ' Topica ' , trans . by H. M. Hubbell , Loeb Classical Library ( London : Heinemann ; Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1949 ) , pp . 3-345 . fortifying his own being. This is why Marlowe's Tamburlaine is 5.
... Tamburlaine is such a typical product of Humanism. Along with this idea of the transformative ethic went an increased awareness of the importance of elocutio,8 or style, and the schemes and tropes which were its subject matter. It is ...
... Tamburlaine is the apotheosis , the materialization of Erasmus ' ideal on the Renaissance stage . At the same time as rhetoric's subject matter was expanded , the practice of the Middle Ages in applying it to literary forms in general ...
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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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