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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... Epideictic Rhetoric, Morality, and the De Casibus tradition. / 49 Chapter Four: Edward I: The Rhetoric of Ethos and Theatrical Display / 69 Chapter Five: David and Bethsabe and the Clash between Ethos and Delectatio / 100 Chapter Six ...
... epideictic forms.16 In the first two books it gives a detailed analysis of the types and sub-types of judicial issues and topics of invention, or material for constructing arguments, to be used within each type. There are also sections ...
... epideictic) helped set a precedent for similar practices in the vernacular drama. The formal speech became the means by which the playwright could demonstrate his mastery of rhetoric.50 It was a practice inculcated by the school ...
... Epideictic Drama: Praise and Blame in the Plays of Peele and Lyly', Cahiers Elizabéthains, 23 (1983), 15-33. There are also a number of American dissertations on the topic: K. Noble, 'A Study of the Style of George Peele's Dramatic ...
... epideictic performance to which its various elements are subsidiary. Paris' choice is ultimately irrelevant, because love, majesty, and wisdom are unified and reconciled in the person of the Queen. 88 Ibid., p. 85. 89 Ibid., p. 80. 37.
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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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