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 invarious cultural and linguistic guises.

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Yes, you can access Filming and Performing Renaissance History by M. Burnett, A. Streete, M. Burnett,A. Streete in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Theatre History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230299429

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Theatre History & Criticism

Cover
Filming and Performing Renaissance History
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Documenting the Renaissance
The Network King: Re-creating Henry VIII for a Global Television Audience
Breaking Shakespeare’s Image in Late Spanish Drama and Film
The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing Identity in The Return of Martin Guerre
‘Welcome to Babylon’: Performing and Screening the English Revolution
The Cinematic Treatment of Early Modern Witch Trials
The Golem, or the Communist ‘What You Will’
Horrible Shakespearean Histories: Performing the Renaissance for and with Children
Mark Rylance, Henry V and ‘Original Practices’ at Shakespeare’s Globe: History Refashioned
‘There is So Much to See in Rome’: The Cinematic Materialities of Martin Luther’s Reformation
The Pageant of History: Staging the Local Past, 1905–39
Private Lives and Public Conflicts: The English Renaissance on Film, 1998–2010
Epilogue: Documentary Reflections
Index