Filming and Performing Renaissance History

1. Introduction: Documenting the Renaissance
Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete

2. The Network King: Re-creating Henry VIII for a Global Television Audience
Ramona Wray

3. Breaking Shakespeare’s Image in Late Spanish Drama and Film
Jesús Tronch Pérez

4. The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing Identity in The Return of Martin Guerre
John O’Brien

5. ‘Welcome to Babylon’: Performing and Screening the English Revolution
Jerome Groot

6. The Cinematic Treatment of Early Modern Witch Trials
James Sharpe

7. The Golem, or the Communist ‘What You Will’
Martin Procházka

8. Horrible Shakespearean Histories: Performing the Renaissance for and with Children
Kate Chedgzoy

9. Mark Rylance, Henry V and ‘Original Practices’ at Shakespeare’s Globe: History Refashioned
Christie Carson

10. ‘There is So Much to See in Rome’: The Cinematic Materialities of Martin Luther’s Reformation
Conor Smyth

11. The Pageant of History: Staging the Local Past, 1905–39
Michael Dobson

12. Private Lives and Public Conflicts: The English Renaissance on Film, 1998–2010
Andrew Higson

13. Epilogue: Documentary Reflections
Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Film History, Social History, Cultural History, Film and Television Studies, Performing Arts