Filming and Performing Renaissance History [Hardcover]

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.List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Preface; M.Burnett Documenting the Renaissance; M.Burnett & A.Streete The Network King: Recreating Henry VIII for a Global Television Audience; R.Wray Breaking Shakespeare's Image in Late Spanish Drama and Film; J.Tronch P?rez The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing Identity in The Return of Martin Guerre; J.O'Brien 'Welcome to Babylon': Performing and Screening the English Revolution; J.de Groot The Cinematic Treatment of Early Modern Witch Trials; J.Sharpe The Golem, or the Communist 'What You Will'; M.Proch?zka Horrible Shakespearean Histories: Performing the Renaissance with and for Children; K.Chedgzoy Mark Rylance, Henry V and 'Original Practices' at Shakespeare's Globe: History Refashioned; C.Carson 'There is so much to see in Rome': The Cinematic Materialities of Martin Luther's Reformation; C.Smyth The Pageant of History: Staging the Local Past; M.Dobson Private Lives and Public Conflicts: The English Renaissance on Film, 1998-2010; A.Higson Epilogue: Documentary Reflections; M.Burnett ?& A.Streete Index

'This is an exciting, ground-breaking collection from a sterling cast of contributors, which launches our re-imaginings of the English and European Renaissance in film, media and popular culture into the twenty-first century.'

- Robert Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK

'In this interdisciplinary, cutting-edge volume, Burnett and Streete have selected eleven...striking essays which in their coverage of topics as diverse as Spanish Shakespeare cinema, hit television shows like The Tudors, and Renaissance role-l#!