Filming and Performing Renaissance History

by M. Burnett (Editor), A. Streete (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349323937
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CHRISTIE CARSON Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK KATE CHEDGZOY Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK JEROME DE GROOT Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK MICHAEL DOBSON Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK ANDREW HIGSON Professor of Film Studies at the University of York, UK JOHN O'BRIEN Professor of French Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JESÚS TRONCH PÉREZ Associate Professor of English at the University of València, Spain MARTIN PROCHÁZKA Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at Charles University, Prague JAMES SHARPE Professor of History at the University of York, UK CONOR SMYTH Ph.D. candidate Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland RAMONA WRAY Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Table of Contents

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 Pérez 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.Procházka 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

Editorial Reviews

'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-playing games emphasize that the living, breathing period we call the Renaissance is anything but history.'

- Greg Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA

'This unique collection of essays looks at the European Renaissance as it is represented in genres like reality shows, television documentaries and series, movies, stage productions, and pageants ... Marvellously focused and rich in scope.'

- Ton Hoenselaars, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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