Filming and Performing Renaissance History [electronic resource] /
Burnett, M.editor.
Streete, A.editor.
Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: documenting the Renaissance / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete -- The network king: recreating Henry VIII for a global television audience / Ramona Wray -- Breaking Shakespeare's image in late Spanish drama and film / Jesús Tronch Pérez -- The touch of man on woman: dramatizing identity in The return of Martin Guerre / John O'Brien -- 'Welcome to Babylon': performing and screening the English revolution / Jerome de Groot -- The cinematic treatment of early modern witch trials / James Sharpe -- The golem, or the Communist 'what you will' / Martin Procházka -- Horrible Shakespearean histories: performing the Renaissance with and for children / Kate Chedgzoy -- Mark Rylance, Henry V and 'Original practices' at Shakespeare's Globe: history refashioned / Christie Carson -- 'There is so much to see in Rome': the cinematic materialities of Martin Luther's Reformation / Conor Smyth -- The pageant of history: staging the local past, 1905-39  / Michael Dobson -- Private lives and public conflicts: the English Renaissance on Film, 1998-2010 / Andrew Higson -- Epilogue: documentary reflections / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete.
Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises.
Theater-History.
Motion pictures-History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Performing arts.
Theatre History.
Film History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Screen Studies.
Performing Arts.