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Filming and performing Renaissance history [electronic resource] /

by Burnett, Mark Thornton; Streete, Adrian; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xiii, 212 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Renaissance in motion pictures | Historical films -- History and criticism | Documentary films -- History and criticism | Renaissance on television | Renaissance in literature | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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 / Jes�us Tronch P�erez -- 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 Proch�azka -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Jes�us Tronch P�erez -- 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 Proch�azka -- 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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