Filming and performing Renaissance history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Burnett, Mark Thornton, Streete, Adrian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:	Renaissance in motion pictures. Historical films > History and criticism. Documentary films > History and criticism. Renaissance on television. Renaissance in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.