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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... death . Tel . Why ? Cupid . Because the knot was knit by faith , and must onely be unknit of death . Eurota . Why laugh you ? Cupid . Because it is the fairest and the falsest , doone with greatest arte and least trueth , with best ...
... death Wait on the counsels of this cursed king: And to a bloudie banket he invites The brave Sebastian and his noble peeres. (4.978) < Enter a banket brought in by two moores. Enter to the bloudie banket Sebastian, Muly Mahamet, the ...
... death and dismemberment being brought about by the mythical Furies and the personified abstraction of Death. Peele is driving home the fact that the forces which are set to sweep all the characters away have been set in motion by the ...
... death. But the fact remains that from Act 2 onwards the dumb shows serve to embody these forces of revenge and destiny which have been released and which are to consume both the good and evil persons of the drama. The Presenter is ...
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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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