Filming and performing Renaissance history / edited by Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete.

Other author Burnett, Mark Thornton.
Other author Streete, Adrian.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Renaissance in motion pictures.
Historical films--History and criticism.
Documentary films--History and criticism.
Renaissance on television.
Renaissance in literature.

Contents Introduction: documenting the Renaissance / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete -- The network king: re-creating 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 for and with 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': 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011001474
ISBN9780230273436 (alk. paper)
ISBN0230273432 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.R46 F55 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold