Filming and performing Renaissance history
By: edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230273436
Subjects: Historical films; Documentary films; Renaissance in literature; Renaissance on television; Renaissance in motion pictures; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: documenting the Renaissance / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete; title: The network king: recreating Henry VIII for a global television audience / Ramona Wray; title: Breaking Shakespeare's image in late Spanish drama and film / Jesús Tronch Pérez; title: The touch of man on woman: dramatizing identity in The return of Martin Guerre / John O'Brien; title: 'Welcome to Babylon': performing and screening the English revolution / Jerome de Groot; title: The cinematic treatment of early modern witch trials / James Sharpe; title: The golem, or the Communist 'what you will' / Martin Procházka; title: Horrible Shakespearean histories: performing the Renaissance with and for children / Kate Chedgzoy; title: Mark Rylance, Henry V and 'Original practices' at Shakespeare's Globe: history refashioned / Christie Carson; title: 'There is so much to see in Rome': the cinematic materialities of Martin Luther's Reformation / Conor Smyth; title: The pageant of history: staging the local past, 1905-39  / Michael Dobson; title: Private lives and public conflicts: the English Renaissance on Film, 1998-2010 / Andrew Higson; title: Epilogue: documentary reflections / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete.