Greg Walker
Professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh
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- PhD English Literature University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Greg Walker is Regius professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Southampton. His specialist field is the history of literature and drama in the late-medieval period and the sixteenth century. Before taking up the Regius Chair he was the Masson Professor of English at Edinburgh. Before that he was Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. Between 1986 and 1989 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and has also taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham. He was the Head of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures between 2008 and 2011.
Greg Walker 's Published Works
Published Works
- Writing Under Tyranny (2005) (71)
- Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2010) (61)
- Theatre and Reformation: Protestantism, Patronage, and Playing in Tudor England (1995) (52)
- The premature reformation: Wycliffite texts and lollard history (1991) (46)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Acknowledgements (1998) (38)
- The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English (2010) (37)
- Court culture and the origins of a royalist tradition in early Stuart England (1989) (33)
- Medieval Drama: An Anthology (2000) (29)
- Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (2005) (27)
- The Book Named the Governor (2005) (27)
- Saint or Schemer? The 1527 Heresy Trial of Thomas Bilney Reconsidered (1989) (25)
- England's iconoclasts: Laws against images (1991) (25)
- The ‘Expulsion of the Minions’ of 1519 Reconsidered (1989) (22)
- John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (1988) (20)
- Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII (1996) (20)
- The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England (2003) (20)
- Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (1991) (20)
- Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare (1993) (18)
- The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (2012) (18)
- RETHINKING THE FALL OF ANNE BOLEYN (2002) (16)
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (2003) (14)
- The politics of Gorboduc (1995) (14)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Dramatic justice at the Marian court: Nicholas Udall's Respublica (1998) (12)
- Criticism and compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I (2012) (12)
- No substitute for experience (2002) (9)
- Reading Literature Historically: ‘To Speak before the King, it is no Child's Play’: Godly Queen Hester in 1529 (2013) (9)
- Imagining Spectatorship: From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage (2016) (9)
- Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2013) (7)
- The roots of Alexander Korda: myths of identity and the international film (2003) (7)
- The Politics of Gorbodu (1995) (6)
- The Politics of Pearl: Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II (2002) (6)
- God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality (2012) (5)
- John Heywood (2020) (5)
- Thunderbolts and Lightning (Very, Very Frightening?): Playing with Jupiter in Heywood’s Play of the Weather (2006) (5)
- The Cultural Work of Early drama (2008) (5)
- The Cambridge Companion to medieval English theatre (2008) (4)
- Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation (2013) (4)
- A broken REED?: early drama records, politics, and the old historicism (1995) (3)
- War and border societies in the middle ages (1994) (3)
- From Revelation to Commodity: Performing Messengers, Language and News from the York Cycle to Ben Jonson (2006) (3)
- The Phoenix and the Parrot: Skelton and the Language of Satire (2015) (2)
- Staging Scripture, Biblical Drama, 1350-1600 (2016) (2)
- Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble With Absolon in The Miller’s Tale (2002) (2)
- The Oxford English Literary History. Vol. 2: Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547 (2003) (2)
- ‘A Great Guy with His Chopper’?: The Sex Life of Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh (2011) (2)
- Review: Play: Measure for Measure (1998) (2)
- Political thought and tudor commonwealth: Deep structure, discourse and disguise, (1994) (2)
- The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama (2014) (2)
- Review of "The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens" (2010) (2)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Strategies of courtship: the marital politics of Gorboduc (1998) (1)
- Rawls, Political Liberalism, and the Family: A Reply to Matthew B. O'Brien (2014) (1)
- Dialogue, resistance and accommodation: conservative literary responses to the Henrician Reformation (2017) (1)
- Reflections on Staging Sir David Lyndsay's Satire of the Three Estates at Linlithgow Palace, June 2013 (2013) (1)
- Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha ‘Chaucer’ and the Poetry of Moderation (2005) (1)
- Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound: Performing National Identity in the First Phase of Progressive Rock: Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and PFM (2008) (1)
- Plays of Persuasion: Radical drama? John Bale's King Johan (1991) (1)
- Oxford, I: The records; II: Editorial apparatus (2005) (1)
- In defence of the church catholic: The life of Stephen Gardiner: Glyn Redworth (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 332pp., £45.00 (1992) (1)
- John Skelton, Thomas More, and the 'lost' history of the early Reformation in England (2013) (1)
- Conservative drama I: Godly Queene Hester (1991) (1)
- Wyatt Resteth Here (2005) (1)
- Review: Play: 1994–5 RSC Autum/Winter Season at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Broken Heart (1995) (1)
- Factional politics and the english reformation, 1520–1540, (1994) (1)
- Reading Literature Historically (2013) (1)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Acting government: Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1998) (1)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Introduction (1998) (1)
- The uncanny Reformation: Revenant texts and distorted time in Henrician England (2017) (1)
- Review: Play: As You like it (1996) (1)
- The blind devotion of the people: Popular religion and the English reformation (1991) (1)
- Plays of Persuasion: Introduction (1991) (1)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: John Heywood and the politics of contentment (1998) (0)
- Pleading with Power (2005) (0)
- Laughing at Natural Fools (2014) (0)
- Plays and Playcoats (2020) (0)
- Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (review) (2009) (0)
- Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe (2010) (0)
- Rewriting the Court: Politics, Culture, and Selfhood in Early Modern England (1994) (0)
- Speaking in Parables (2020) (0)
- Embodying Meaning and Emotion (2016) (0)
- Plays of Persuasion: Improving literature? The interlude of Hick Scorner (1991) (0)
- John Skelton and the royal court (2018) (0)
- From Supremacy to Tyranny, 1533–40 (2005) (0)
- Humanism, reform and the reformation: The career of Bishop John Fisher (1991) (0)
- Discord, Dissent, and Division (2020) (0)
- Review: Book: Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (1998) (0)
- Personification in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (2016) (0)
- Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance (2011) (0)
- Towards a Reformed Theatre (2020) (0)
- Liberalism, Republicanism and Same-Sex Marriage (2013) (0)
- The Vice of the interludes and the Mannerist tradition (2016) (0)
- Conscience and Satire in A Play of Love (2020) (0)
- Verity’s Bible (2013) (0)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Playing by the book: early Tudor drama and the printed text (1998) (0)
- Tudor Household Drama (2016) (0)
- Review of "The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching" by Martin Rhonheimer (2013) (0)
- Review of 'The Common Good of a Constitutional Democracy' by Martin Rhonheimer (2013) (0)
- Modeling Thermoelectric Materials (2016) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Index (2013) (0)
- ‘Folly in Sir David Lyndsay’s Satire of the Thrie Estaitis’ (2014) (0)
- Review: Play: 1995 RSC Season at Stratford-upon-Avon and in London, the Taming of the Shrew (1995) (0)
- “Ordered Confusion”?: The Crisis of Authority in Skelton’s Speke, Parott (1989) (0)
- ‘Satire and Conscience in John Heywood’s Play of Love’ (2013) (0)
- ‘In the Beginning … ’: Performing the Creation in the York Corpus Christi Play (2012) (0)
- Court drama and politics: further questions and some conclusions (1991) (0)
- And Here's Your Host…: Jews and Others in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament (2009) (0)
- Performing Diplomacies (2020) (0)
- ‘At this my extreme age’ (2020) (0)
- The Accession of Mary Tudor (2020) (0)
- Maksymilian Del Mar’s Artefacts of Legal Inquiry (2022) (0)
- Tyranny and the Conscience of Man (2005) (0)
- The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (2010) (0)
- Poetry and History (2010) (0)
- Faill nocht to teme your bleddir: passing time in Sir David Lindsay's Ane satyre of the thrie estaitis (2000) (0)
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (2005) (0)
- London and the reformation: Susan Brigden (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991), xx + 676 pp., £19.95 P.B. (1992) (0)
- Faith, Hope, and Mendacity (2020) (0)
- Conscience and Satire in John Heywood's Play of Love (2022) (0)
- "Ye seem to have that ye have not": Religious belief and doubt in John Heywood’s The Four PP (2018) (0)
- The Entertainments at the Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the French Dauphin François, 1558 (2020) (0)
- Sir Thomas Elyot and The King's Great Matter (2005) (0)
- Review: Play: The Comedy of Errors (1996) (0)
- Review: Play: Twelfth Night (1995) (0)
- Review: Play: As You like it (1997) (0)
- Interlude: The Annus Mirabilis of 1529 (2020) (0)
- In Kent and Christendom? (2020) (0)
- The Places of Foolery (2020) (0)
- Performance as research: Staging John Heywood's Play of the Weather at Hampton Court Palace (2005) (0)
- The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance by J. L. Styan (review) (2016) (0)
- Origins and Early Years (2020) (0)
- Plays of Persuasion: A domestic drama: John Skelton's Magnyfycence and the royal household (1991) (0)
- Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 61 (2009) (0)
- Embracing failure: the life between polite and pushed (2018) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: The Plowman's Tale and the Politics of 1532: A Cautionary Tale? (2013) (0)
- The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance (2002) (0)
- The Sixteenth-century Court Audience (2020) (0)
- Political protest and prophehecy under Henry VIII,: Sharon L. Jansen (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1991), x+170 pp., £29.50. (1994) (0)
- Review: Play: Autumn/Winter Season of the RSC at Stratford-upon-Avon (1996) (0)
- The Significance of Heywood’s Interludes (2020) (0)
- Watching The Three Estates (2016) (0)
- ‘My Lady Tongue’ (2020) (0)
- 9 Personification in Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates (2016) (0)
- Literacy, authorship, and belief in medieval and renaissance Europe (1996) (0)
- The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolphus (1997) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (2007) (0)
- Review: Play: 1997 RSC Winter and Spring Season at Stratford-upon-Avon (1997) (0)
- Discordant Voices (2020) (0)
- Poetics and Politics (2019) (0)
- Review of "God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality" by Mark C. Murphy (2012) (0)
- Review: Play: 1997 RSC Summer Season at Stratford-upon-Avon (1997) (0)
- Review: Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture (2005) (0)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Household drama and the art of good counsel (1998) (0)
- "Household Business": Domestic Plays of Early Modern England by Viviana Comensoli (review) (2016) (0)
- Review: Play: Saint Erkenwald (1997) (0)
- Reading Chaucer in 1532 (2005) (0)
- The Signs of the World (2005) (0)
- Early modern England, a social history, 1550–1760 (1989) (0)
- Love and Chastity (2020) (0)
- Sickle cell problems. Introduction. (1974) (0)
- Dramatising Ideology (2020) (0)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Appendix 1 (1998) (0)
- Review: Play: The Mysteries: Part One: The Creation, and Part Two: The Passion (1997) (0)
- 'The best pairt of our play':: Essays presented to John J. McGavin. Part I (2015) (0)
- Literature and Philosophy (2019) (0)
- Review: Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996) (0)
- Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics and Art – Edited by Martin Rankin, Christopher Highley and John N. King (2011) (0)
- The Blackwell Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2010) (0)
- Review: Play: The Taming of the Shrew (1995) (0)
- Skelton and the Royal Court (2008) (0)
- Play Reviews: Twelfth Night, Henry V, the Merchant of Venice, the Taming of the Shrew, the History of King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, the Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry VI, Falstafe (2008) (0)
- A Gift for King Henry VIII (2005) (0)
- Excitonic Processes in Solids (1987) (0)
- Grand Masters of Vinyl (2008) (0)
- The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama: Epilogue (1998) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
- The Popular Voice in Sir David Lyndsay's Satire of the Thrie Estaitis (2014) (0)
- Reviews Plays: The Jew of Malta, Julius Caesar, Much Ado about Nothing, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III, Shakespeare's Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, Antony and Cleopatra, Gallathea, La nuit des Rois, Peine d'amour perdue, Roméo et Juliette (1999) (0)
- Performance as Research: Performing John Heywood’s Play of the Weather at Hampton Court (2007) (0)
- “A Great Guy With His Chopper”?: Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh’: Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh (2012) (0)
- Complaining about the Weather (2020) (0)
- ‘When all that is to was is brought’ (2020) (0)
- The Long Divorce of Steel (2005) (0)
- Plays of Persuasion: Conservative drama II: John Heywood's Play of the Weather (1991) (0)
- Review: Play: Bartholomew Fair (1998) (0)
- New Forms, New Challenges (2020) (0)
- IIILater Medieval: Excluding Chaucer (2008) (0)
- Bellicose Verse (2020) (0)
- Blurred lines?: Religion, reform, and reformation in Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (2016) (0)
- NEXTSTEP IN SAN FRANCISCO. (2005) (0)
- Introduction: ‘When Lyberte Ruled’: Tudor Drama 1485–1603 (2012) (0)
- Opposition and Difference (2019) (0)
- Mimesis and Metafiction (2019) (0)
- Cynicism and Hope (2020) (0)
- Faction, faith and ideology in the henrician reformation (1994) (0)
- Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and ‘The Defence’ (2005) (0)
- Religious violence and dramatic innovation in the Tudor interlude (2020) (0)
- ‘His own life and nature’ (2020) (0)
- Mocking the Thunder (2005) (0)
- 2Blurred Lines? Religion, Reform, and Reformation in Sir David Lyndsay’s (2016) (0)
- Literary Studies and Cultural Studies (2019) (0)
- The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching (2013) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Contents (2013) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2013) (0)
- Literary Theory and Critical Practice (2019) (0)
- ‘When did “The Medieval” End?: Retrospection, Foresight and the End(s) of the English Middle Ages’, (2010) (0)
- ‘To Thexaltacyon of Noblesse’ (2020) (0)
- Review: Book: Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (1998) (0)
- The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot (2005) (0)
- ‘Gely Wyth Tharmys of Scotland England’ (2020) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller's Tale (2013) (0)
- Plays of Persuasion: Political drama in the reign of Henry VIII: an interpretation (1991) (0)
- IIIMiddle English: Excluding Chaucer (1993) (0)
- Allegory in the Interludes; chronology, taxonomy and "Gorboduc" (again) (2003) (0)
- Figuring the Spectator (2016) (0)
- When did ‘the Medieval’ End? (2010) (0)
- ‘The Magisterial Hero: Performing Masculinity in Rowley’s When You See Me, You Know Me’ (2008) (0)
- Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound?: Permorming Englishness in English and Italian Progressive Rock (2008) (0)
- The Spectatorial Turn (2016) (0)
- Rehabilitation and Reformation (2020) (0)
- Review: Play: Hamlet (1996) (0)
- Reading Literature Historically: Introduction: Literature and History: The Risks of Conversation (2013) (0)
- Review: Play: Everyman (1997) (0)
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