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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... contrast which can only help to enliven and sharpen analysis. More specifically, this work concerns itself with ethical rhetoric. That such a study as this confines itself to a particular area of rhetoric is in part due to the necessity ...
... contrast the ideals and practices of the Renaissance Humanists themselves ; by constructing the Middle Ages in this way , they justified their own plans for education and society . They laid stress on the practical nature of rhetoric ...
... contrasts between the adjuncts of love and those of war. The image of the vast mind of Alexander, which the world itself could not contain, being so shrunk it is entrapped within a woman's eye, derives its effectiveness from being ...
... contrasts. In other words, the ethos and pathos of the speech is contained within its logos. Perhaps the best comment on it, however, is the first line of Alexander's reply, which recognizes just this overwhelming primacy of reason ...
... contrast, and pattern, and conscious preparation of dramatic effects throughout.107 If we are to assess Peele's strengths and weaknesses as a playwright or discover what sets him apart from his contemporaries, we must do so within a ...
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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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