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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... lack of it.11 True style , then , according to Erasmus , is. 10 Baldwin, II, 176-96. 11 Desiderius Erasmus, De duplici copia uerborum ac rerum commentarii duo, trans. by B. I. Knott, in The Collected works of Erasmus, ed. by R. A. B. ...
... lacks the variety which is one of the requirements for the development of individual character. The psychological interest is, in fact, minimal. But as we are at pains to point out in this work, neither playwright nor audience regarded ...
... lack the emotional intensity and emotional development present in Senecan tragedy. This is because Gorboduc has an overwhelming didactic function: it is indeed a ' "Mirror for Magistrates" in dramatic form'.53 The characters are merely ...
... lack of quality in the verse or language.54 Though this formal, objective, didactic structure, an inheritance of both Seneca and the Moralities, was the norm for classical tragedy, comedies based on Plautus and Terence, such as Gammer ...
... lacking in his appeal. The ploche, the dwelling on the word 'sonne', is a natural outcome of Henry's own felt unworthiness. It is also a momentary turning away, an aposiopesis, brought on by emotion: he has hardly behaved like a son to ...
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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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