Filming and Performing Renaissance History -

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
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 JES?S TRONCH P?REZ Associate Professor of English at the University of Val?ncia, Spain MARTIN PROCH?ZKA 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.

Sommaire:
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