Filming and performing Renaissance history

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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