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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... speaks in his own character.25 Here the close links between a rhetorical ethos and dramatic character creation are clearly recognized. An education system loaded with rhetoric is but one facet of an Elizabethan Age which had an intense ...
... speak for me: pardon me, pardon good father, not a word: ah he wil not speak one word: I Harry, now thrice unhappy Harry. But what shall I do: I wil go take me into some solitarie place, and there lament my sinfull life, and when I have ...
... speaks of 'Peele's most unfortunate and recurrent faults'.105 'When he [Peele] turns to rhetoric,' Ashley writes, 'he does not convey any impression of spontaneity, of a real human being speaking', and adds that 'while the stage ...
... speak , begets tyranny . Though this first dumb show contains no allegory , as soon as it is over the Presenter introduces the mythical figures that are later to be embodied on stage : Saith not these things are faind , for true they ...
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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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