PEELE, GEORGE

1558?–1597?, English playwright, educated at Oxford. He experimented in a variety of forms, including the pageant, history, pastoral, comedy, and melodrama, but his best-known work is The Old Wives Tale (1595), a frolicsome piece that infuses a depiction of ordinary English life with elements of folklore and romance. His other extant plays include The Arraignment of Paris (1584), Edward I (1593), The Battle of Alcazar (1594), and The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe (1599). Some modern scholarship has attributed to him almost a third of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (c.1594). Peele was one of the "university wits," a group of poets and playwrights that included Marlowe,Nashe, and Robert Greene.

See his life and works, ed. by C. T. Prouty (3 vol., 1952–70); biography by G. K. Hunter (1968); B. Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Author (2003).

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Elizabethan Comic Character Conventions as Revealed in the Comedies of George Chapman
Book by Paul V. Kreider; University of Michigan Press, 1935
Subjects: Chapman, George--1559?-1634, Characters And Characteristics In Literature, Drama--Technique, English Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History And Criticism, Fiction
...York and London, 1903, 1913, 1914. GREENE ROBERT, AND PEELE GEORGE, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele , edited by the Rev. Alexander Dyce for the Old Dramatists...
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From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H. W. Bush
Book by Meena Bose, Rosanna Perotti; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Bush, George--1924---Congresses, United States--Foreign Relations--1989-1993--Congresses
...1989, p. 405. 61. Gillian Peele erroneously reports that Bush...The nomination was rejected. Peele, The Constrained Presidency of George Bush, Current History (April...The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush (New York: Simon and...
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George Whetstone: Mid-Elizabethan Gentleman of Letters
Book by Thomas C. Izard; Columbia University Press, 1942
Subjects: Whetstone, George--1544?-1587?
...Thomas Kyd a play to be called The Spanish Tragedy . George Peele had written a play but he was still practically unknown...Elizabethan Poetry London, 1906 , pp. 16-17. 58 George Philip Krapp, The Rise of English Literary Prose New...
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A Noble Calling: Character and the George H. W. Bush Presidency
Book by William Levantrosser, Rosanna Perotti; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Bush, George--1924-, Bush, George--1924---Political And Social Views, Character--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Political Leadership--United States--History--20th Century, Presidents--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1989-1993
...and Robert Shepard, Is Prudence a Policy? George Bush and the World, in Barilleaux and Stuckey...Review, 55 (Winter 1991): 72-75; Gillian Peele, The Con- strained Presidency of George Bush, Current History 91 (April 1992): 151...
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Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont : 1800-1808
Book by Richard E. Matlak; University of Delaware Press, 2003
Subjects: Beaumont, George Howland--Sir--1753-1827, Brothers--Great Britain--Biography, Death In Literature, Elegiac Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Poets, English--19th Century--Biography, Poets, English--19th Century--Family Relationships, Sailors--Great Britain--Biography, Wordsworth, John--1772-1805, Wordsworth, William--1770-1850--Elegiac Stanzas, Wordsworth, William--1770-1850--Family
...that Coleridge agreed with Sir George in conversation that "in Sculpture...and which Wordsworth spells Peele in the extended title of...Suggested by a Picture of Peele Cas- tle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont. I will use whichever...
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George Peele and the Judgment of Elizabeth I
Journal article by Paige Martin Reynolds; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Elizabeth I, Queen of England--Portrayals, Peele, George--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, The Araygnement of Paris (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
George Peele and the Judgment of Elizabeth I. by...Winter 2002): 907-46, 907. (3) George Peele, The Araygnement of Paris, ed. R...Benbow, vol. 3 in The Dramatic Works of George Peele (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1970...
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Old Wives' Tales, George Peele, and Narrative Abjection
Journal article by Mary Ellen Lamb; Critical Survey, Vol. 14, 2002
Subjects: English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Folk literature, Folklore, Peele, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sidney, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Old Wives Tales, George Peele, and Narrative Abjection. by...well by Frank S. Hook, editor of George Peele, `The Old Wives Tale in The Dramatic Works of George Peele (New Haven: Yale University Press...
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Richard E. Matlak. Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808
Journal article by Kenneth R. Johnston; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808 (Book)--Book reviews
...be patron, Sir George Beaumont, from 1803...Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont." By linking...from, those of Sir George Beaumont and the School...a ship sinking off Peele Island, in a larger...
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The Protestant Context of George Peele's "pleasant Conceited" Old Wives Tale
Journal article by Frank Ardolino; Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 18, 2005
The Protestant Context of George Peeles "pleasant Conceited...Protestant England under Elizabeth. Peele was a courtier poet who used...anticipates the rest of his career. Peele appropriates the classical myth...gift-giving cycle in which Peele offers his play as the gift...
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Coauthors and Closed Minds
Journal article by Brian Vickers; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Authorship--Analysis, Henry VI (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Pericles (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespearean folios and quartos--Analysis, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare, William) (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...Elizabethan dramatist. We now know that George Peele wrote act 1 and three other scenes...894 lines to Timon of Athens; George Wilkins supplied the first two...identified suggested the presence of George Peele as coauthor. Over the following...
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Shakespeare in Love, or in Context: If Society Creates Art, as Stephen Greenblatt Believes, Then Why Was Shakespeare's Achievement So Singular?
Magazine article by Cristina Nehring; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294, December 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Will in the World (Book)--Book reviews
...Robert Greene, Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, and Thomas Lodge. They were all far...Nashe at thirty-three, Watson at thirty-five, Peele, the eldest, at thirty-nine. There are artists whose...
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Shakespeare and Middleton a Review Article
Magazine article by Ralph Berry; Contemporary Review, Vol. 290, Autumn 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to The Collected Works (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...his revision of earlier efforts by Marlowe, Chapman, Peele and others. These extreme views are not supported today...Shakespeare the play doctor, who took over a treatment by George Peele. The Two Noble Kinsmen (part Fletcher) and Edward III...
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Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence
Magazine article by Diana Price; Skeptic, Vol. 11, 2004
Subjects: Composition, Drama, Dramatists, Literary criticism, Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
...activities as professional writers. George Peele left behind a letter begging for...written work were Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, Henry Chettle, Samuel...coming from J.Thomas Looney and Sir George Greenwood in England. Mark Twains...
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Interesting, If True
Magazine article by Jesse Lander; Commonweal, Vol. 132, July 15, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (Book)--Book reviews
...collaboration. Recently scholars have made convincing arguments that Titus Andronicus was the joint labor of Shakespeare and George Peele. Similarly, Shakespeares last two plays are now widely accepted to have been collaborations with John Fletcher, who...
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Beyond the Wild Wood
Magazine article by Alan Jacobs; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Annotated Wind in the Willows (Novel)--Book reviews, The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition (Novel)--Book reviews
...its best not to inquire too deeply into such matters, if one does not have to. One of Shakespeares contemporaries, George Peele, wrote a play in which an old woman, Gammer Madge, starts telling a story: "Once upon a time, there was a king...
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Desperately Seeking Will; Chris Upton Looks at the Man - and Men - Who Could Well Be Shakespeare
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 22, 2006
Subjects: Shakespeare, William
...of Pericles (by Shakespeare and George Wilkins), Timon of Athens (with...Midlands - including Dr Johnson and George Eliot - but at least it has more...Marlowe, Spenser, Robert Greene and George Peele, to name but a few. You only have...
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Bard Company
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 7, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...singlehandedly invented human nature. Wells reminds us that Shakespeare was no lone genius. He worked with the minor playwright George Peele to produce the early and bloody play Titus Andronicus. Thomas Middleton probably played a part in revising and perhaps...
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Secret of the Others Behind Bard's Genius
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 7, 2006
Subjects: Drama, Plays
...Fletcher and John Webster. Wells reminds us that Shakespeare was no lone genius. He worked with the minor playwright George Peele to produce the early and bloody play Titus Andronicus. Thomas Middleton probably played a part in revising and perhaps...
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Venture Capitalists Woo Foreign Investors
Newspaper article by Carter Dougherty; The Washington Times, November 20, 2000
...different mind-set," said George Abraham, a senior managing...to its vice president, Ron Peele. "We think the move into Israel was a good one," Mr. Peele said. Well be doing more abroad...development in the continent, Mr. Peele said. Other investors, such...
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Removing Land Mines
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 10, 2006
Subjects: Land mines, Peacekeeping forces
...ambassadors New York residence, the face of George Washington was everywhere. A study for...the American West. Asked about all the George Washingtons in his home, Mr. Bolton...Whoever thought Id get to live with a James Peele or a Gilbert Stuart?" * Betsy Pisik...
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encyclopedia articles on: Peele George  - 4 results

 
 
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Peele, George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEELE, GEORGE 1558? 1597?, English playwright, educated at Oxford. He experimented...attributed to him almost a third of Shakespeares Titus Andronicus (c.1594). Peele was one of the "university wits," a group of poets and playwrights that...
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Shakespeare's Plays
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Elizabeth Duke of Buckingham Lady Anne George, Duke of Clarence History The Comedy...been written in collaboration with George Peele) 1593 1594 History of Titus Andronicus...The Taming of the Shrew 1593 1623 George Gascoigne, Supposes (1566); Earlier...
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Shakespeare, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of which may have been written by George Peele ), The Taming of the Shrew, The...of which may have been written by George Wilkins), Cymbeline, The Winters...Johnson in the 18th cent. and by George Bernard Shaw in the 20th. Early...
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Dyce, Alexander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He is best known for his scholarly editions of the works of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, including those of George Peele, Robert Greene, John Webster, Christopher Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, and a nine-volume edition of Shakespeare...


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