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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... give us a good deal of insight into their consciousness. This is why works such as T. W. Baldwin's2 and Miriam Joseph's3 are invaluable. But even this knowledge is not enough if we are fully to enter into the life of the Elizabethan ...
... give instruction in this very subject, and these, while professing a mastery of copia, have merely revealed their own total lack of it.11 True style , then , according to Erasmus , is. 10 Baldwin, II, 176-96. 11 Desiderius Erasmus, De ...
... 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 on the arrangement of speeches as a whole ...
... gives the impression of a mind working strictly within carefully constructed bounds which it has set for itself. It is assured, in perfect control of its ideas. It is meant to convey decorum and to advance the ethical standing of the ...
... give you no rest . These two knots are finely untied . Cupid . It was because I never tide them ; the one was knit by Pluto , not Cupid , by money , not love , the other by force , not faith , by appointment , not affection . Ramia ...
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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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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ... Brian B. Ritchie Vista previa limitada - 1999 |