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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... seen as essentially the recovery of lost knowledge. This is why a knowledge of the pedagogical concerns of the Elizabethans and the rhetorical handbooks which were used (both in the Latin and vernacular) can give us a good deal of ...
... Seen in this light, all the arts of language take on a new significance with regard to Man's experience of the world. Words are no longer merely the semblance of things, but possess the energy of reality. 13 Cave, pp. 8-9. 14 Timber; or ...
... seen in its most concentrated form in John Lyly's Euphues, but Lyly was by no means its inventor, though he brought it to its highest degree of sophistication and gave added impetus to its dissemination. Essentially, it is a prose style ...
... seen from my emphasis, is a good deal of repetition, parison, and antithesis. The effect is one of carefully controlled, reasoned thought. It gives the impression of a mind working strictly within carefully constructed bounds which it ...
... seen as an essential part of their character, their ethos. The realistic mode of narrative, the plain and simple style, may have been the forerunner of the language of the modern novel, but it was not a style to which the cultured ...
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Edward I The Rhetoric of Ethos and Theatrical Display | 69 |
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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