Filming and Performing Renaissance History

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Documenting the Renaissance....Pages 1-15
The Network King: Re-creating Henry VIII for a Global Television Audience....Pages 16-32
Breaking Shakespeare’s Image in Late Spanish Drama and Film....Pages 33-49
The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing Identity in The Return of Martin Guerre....Pages 50-64
‘Welcome to Babylon’: Performing and Screening the English Revolution....Pages 65-82
The Cinematic Treatment of Early Modern Witch Trials....Pages 83-98
The Golem, or the Communist ‘What You Will’....Pages 99-111
Horrible Shakespearean Histories: Performing the Renaissance for and with Children....Pages 112-126
Mark Rylance, Henry V and ‘Original Practices’ at Shakespeare’s Globe: History Refashioned....Pages 127-145
‘There is So Much to See in Rome’: The Cinematic Materialities of Martin Luther’s Reformation....Pages 146-162
The Pageant of History: Staging the Local Past, 1905–39....Pages 163-177
Private Lives and Public Conflicts: The English Renaissance on Film, 1998–2010....Pages 178-192
Epilogue: Documentary Reflections....Pages 193-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-212