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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... 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 the rhetorical ...
... character . Used in combination with Cicero's Topica these forms served to enhance and turn to use the theoretical knowledge contained in the first two books of the Rhetorica ad Herennium . We can detect in these exercises the elements ...
... character, as it could be internalized; in other words, it could form the basis of soliloquy. Character creation could only be further enhanced by the practice of the ethopoeia, for this was a deliberate fabrication of character through ...
... character.25 Here the close links between a rhetorical ethos and dramatic character creation are clearly recognized. An education system loaded with rhetoric is but one facet of an Elizabethan Age which had an intense fascination for ...
... characters is what drives Lyly's dramas forward. There is a continuous moral debate, which is sophisticated and ... character creation, but at the same time it tended to reinforce the impression of set formulae. This is true even of ...
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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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