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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... human will, and Renaissance Humanists looked back on the Middle Ages as a period of stultification of the will. 3 Sister Miriam Joseph, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language (New York: Hafner, 1947). 4 Simon Shepherd, Marlowe and the ...
... humanity . This view , oversimplified though it was , helped highlight by contrast the ideals and practices of the Renaissance Humanists themselves ; by constructing the Middle Ages in this way , they justified their own plans for ...
... human speech . The opening line of the above quote sounds a clarion call to all would - be orators , writers , and poets : ' The speech of man is a magnificent and impressive thing when it surges along like a golden river , with ...
... human pathos far surpassing anything of its kind in the classical tragedies. This is sometimes achieved in prose, as in the following passage from The Famous Victories of Henry V. Henry V has entered to his father, Henry IV, with a ...
... human being speaking', and adds that 'while the stage welcomes the overwrought individual, it condemns and exposes the overwrought simile'. Although he admits that the Elizabethan audience had a liking for rhetoric, for Ashley Peele ...
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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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