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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... stage characters and their interaction, and its dual nature creates an interesting field for analysis. By this latter point I mean that it consists both of the rhetoric of morality and the rhetoric of delight. In this work we have ...
... stage . At the same time as rhetoric's subject matter was expanded , the practice of the Middle Ages in applying it to literary forms in general was continued : it was not only the orator who could make use of its techniques , but the ...
... stage, where the actor's voice and delivery produce greater emotional effect when he is speaking in an assumed role than when he speaks in his own character.25 Here the close links between a rhetorical ethos and dramatic character ...
... stage, by Moralities and allegorical representations, which drew on the rich ceremonial of Mediaeval and Renaissance life.51 Samuel Clemen classifies some of these set speeches as follows: Report-speeches, derived largely from Seneca ...
... stage, variety is produced, set speeches broken up through stichomythia, or the distribution of single lines of speech between characters. Tension and excitement is thus maintained through dialogue. In Gorboduc, the first English blank ...
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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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