The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing identity in The Return of Martin Guerre

O'Brien, John

Abstract

Over the last one hundred years, many of the events and personalities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences via a variety of visual media. This collection, for the first time, examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, feature films, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in a range of cultural and linguistic guises. Filming and Performing Renaissance History opens up wider avenues of interpretive opportunity and substitutes a more generous, nuanced acknowledgement of the ways in which the 'Renaissance' is made to signify across disciplines and in relation to a whole series of events and personalities. Accessing the Renaissance in this fashion generates a genuine sense of the modalities of historical representation, of what the Renaissance 'means' and of how its meanings have been negotiated in modernity.

Citation

O'Brien, J. (2011). The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing identity in The Return of Martin Guerre. In M. T. Burnett, & A. Streete (Eds.), Filming and Performing Renaissance History (50-64). Palgrave Macmillan

• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Feb 24, 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 50-64
• Book Title: Filming and Performing Renaissance History.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1649647