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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... regards rhetoric, but because his overwhelming dominance and individual genius may serve to obscure more general trends in the history of the drama; Shakespeare's transformative power is so great that the works of other dramatists can ...
... regards language : a sense of transformation , of power , of originality , of creativity . Again , one feels that ... regard to Man's experience of the world . Words are no longer merely the semblance of things , but possess the energy ...
... regard it as the sole mode of expression of the age . There was another type of writing , a racy colloquialism which sought in plain language to portray the vicissitudes of everyday life . Thomas Nashe writes in the preface to Robert ...
... regards amplification in Gorboduc as 'dispassionate' (Clemen, p. 64), and therefore ineffective. Rhetorical devices he regards as having the effect of 'clarifying meaning', rather than 'enhancing effect'. But this distinction is by no ...
... the presence of his interlocutors . This. 60 'Woodstock': A Moral History, ed. by A. P. Rossiter (London: Chatto and Windus, 1946), p. 72. 61 Woodstock, 1. 1. 169. 64 Of particular interest with regard to the language and 28.
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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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