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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... passage from The Famous Victories of Henry V. Henry V has entered to his father, Henry IV, with a knife. The King expresses a mixture of fear, astonishment, and sadness, fearing his son's intentions. Henry V replies as follows: My ...
... passage Cheffaud refers to is the following: And whether wendes yon thriveles swaine, like to the striken deere. Seekes he Dictamum for his wounde within our forest here. (3.2.565) 77 Cheffaud, p. 53. 78 Ibid. 79 Ibid., p. 48. 34.
... passages lyriques. Nombreux sont ces passages, -- chanson brève ou court poème, -- et c'est en eux que la mélodie du vers peelien résonne le plus harmonieusement.78 But what is most revealing, I believe, in Cheffaud's assessment, is the ...
... passages, he argues, deranges the logical order, detracts from the equilibrium and interdependence of the parts, and shatters the dramatic structure of the whole piece. Stylistically, he believes the play lacks a necessary uniformity ...
... passage is the immense amount of detail given within so short a space. This is one complex sentence couched in the form of a blank verse which is in general regular but with a few important variations. 'Honor', the very first word in ...
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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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