Greg Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1276-6698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medieval English Theatre 37
Essays on aspects of early drama, including in this volume a focus on the Towneley plays. Editors: Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King, Meg Twycross, Greg Walker. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatreand pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and a…
Racial ambivalence in diverse communities
Greg WalkerDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology and GeographyLock Haven University of PennsylvaniaThomas Annex, Lock Haven, PA, [email protected](c) 2013, Greg Walker
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama provides an authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor dr…
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament is the only host miracle play to survive in English. But while the Croxton Play of the Sacrament readily finds a place in academic histories of anti-Semitism, sacramental theology, and violence and special effects in the theatre, David Lawton cautions that the theoretical approaches which the play invites tend to generate ‘mythologies’, or ‘points at which scholarly conclusions have raced ahead of the evidence’. …
Henry VIII and his Afterlives
The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of s…
And Here's Your Host
This essay examines the remarkable late-medieval English dramatic work known as the Croxton Play of the Sacrament—an ambivalent parochial re-interpretation of the Continental genre of the ‘host desecration play’. It suggests that the conventions, ideas and even the characters of the play are curiously distinct from those of the surviving, strongly antisemitic European plays, having seemingly undergone a sea change in the course of their journey f…
Doormen
Doormen. Peter Bearman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
The roots of Alexander Korda
Walker examines the life and career of the filmmaker Alexander Korda, from his early days in Hungary to the late 1930s. He examines Korda's Jewish roots, and the impact and influence of Jewish culture on his early career. Arguing for closer attention to the Jewish milieu in which he lived and worked, he examines the various attempts to elide or obfuscate Korda's Jewishness in contemporary accounts and more recent studies, and offers suggestions a…
Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn
The lurid story of the fall of Anne Boleyn, her trial and condemnation on charges of multiple (and in one case incestuous) adultery has been used to support many different interpretations of the political and religious history of the reign of Henry VIII. This article argues that the fate of the queen and those accused with her was not the result of wider factional battles or a cynical sacrifice, either to appease a jaded king or to enable a shift…
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Greg Walker provides a new account of the relationship between politics and drama in the turbulent period from the accession of Henry VIII to the reign of Elizabeth I. Building upon ideas first developed in Plays of Persuasion (1991), he focuses on political drama in both England and Scotland, exploring the complex relationships between politics, court culture and dramatic composition, performance and publication. Through a detailed analysis of o…
Literacy, authorship, and belief in medieval and renaissance Europe
Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530. Edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xxv + 293 pp., £37.50/$59.95 cloth. Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. By Andrew Hadfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvii + 261 pp., £35.00/$59.59 cloth. Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University, and Town Stages, 1464–1720. B…
Theatre and Reformation
Preface Introduction 1. 'Bale and his fellowes' 2. The King's Men and other troupes 3. Reformation playwrights and plays 4. Reformation drama and education 5. Churches and other playing places 6. Changing Reformation attitudes to playing
Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare
Political protest and prophehecy under Henry VIII
(1994). Political protest and prophehecy under Henry VIII, History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 407-415
War and border societies in the middle ages
(1994). War and border societies in the middle ages. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 797-797
Political thought and tudor commonwealth
Factional politics and the english reformation, 1520–1540
(1994). Factional politics and the english reformation, 1520–1540, History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 407-407
In defence of the church catholic
(1992). In defence of the church catholic: The life of Stephen Gardiner. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 575-575
London and the reformation
Humanism, reform and the reformation
(1991). Humanism, reform and the reformation: The career of Bishop John Fisher. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 269-276
The blind devotion of the people
England's iconoclasts
(1991). England's iconoclasts: Laws against images. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 269-269
The premature reformation
The premature reformation: Wycliffite texts and lollard history." History of European Ideas, 13(3), p. 269
Theatre and Reformation
Preface Introduction 1. 'Bale and his fellowes' 2. The King's Men and other troupes 3. Reformation playwrights and plays 4. Reformation drama and education 5. Churches and other playing places 6. Changing Reformation attitudes to playing
The ‘Expulsion of the Minions’ of 1519 Reconsidered
In recent years the word ‘faction’ has come to dominate study of the early modern period. Despite various reservations concerning precisely what is denoted by the term, historians have begun enthusiastically to look beyond the external appearances of political events to identify the hidden, factional, motives which are assumed to have prompted them. Owing in large part to the pioneering work of Drs D. R. Starkey and E. W. Ives, the reign of Henry…
Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn
The lurid story of the fall of Anne Boleyn, her trial and condemnation on charges of multiple (and in one case incestuous) adultery has been used to support many different interpretations of the political and religious history of the reign of Henry VIII. This article argues that the fate of the queen and those accused with her was not the result of wider factional battles or a cynical sacrifice, either to appease a jaded king or to enable a shift…
Saint or Schemer? The 1527 Heresy Trial of Thomas Bilney Reconsidered
On 8 December 1527 two scholars, Thomas Bilney and Thomas Arthur, carried penitential faggots at St Paul's Cross as a token of abjuration of heresy. With this act both men formally cleansed their souls and brought about their reconciliation with the Church. Far from being the end of a story, however, this ceremony proved to be the beginning of a controversy which has survived until the present day. For Thomas Bilney subsequently renounced his abj…
Racial ambivalence in diverse communities
Greg WalkerDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology and GeographyLock Haven University of PennsylvaniaThomas Annex, Lock Haven, PA, [email protected](c) 2013, Greg Walker
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament is the only host miracle play to survive in English. But while the Croxton Play of the Sacrament readily finds a place in academic histories of anti-Semitism, sacramental theology, and violence and special effects in the theatre, David Lawton cautions that the theoretical approaches which the play invites tend to generate ‘mythologies’, or ‘points at which scholarly conclusions have raced ahead of the evidence’. …
And Here's Your Host
This essay examines the remarkable late-medieval English dramatic work known as the Croxton Play of the Sacrament—an ambivalent parochial re-interpretation of the Continental genre of the ‘host desecration play’. It suggests that the conventions, ideas and even the characters of the play are curiously distinct from those of the surviving, strongly antisemitic European plays, having seemingly undergone a sea change in the course of their journey f…
The roots of Alexander Korda
Walker examines the life and career of the filmmaker Alexander Korda, from his early days in Hungary to the late 1930s. He examines Korda's Jewish roots, and the impact and influence of Jewish culture on his early career. Arguing for closer attention to the Jewish milieu in which he lived and worked, he examines the various attempts to elide or obfuscate Korda's Jewishness in contemporary accounts and more recent studies, and offers suggestions a…
Early modern England, a social history, 1550–1760
Court culture and the origins of a royalist tradition in early Stuart England
Saint or Schemer? The 1527 Heresy Trial of Thomas Bilney Reconsidered
On 8 December 1527 two scholars, Thomas Bilney and Thomas Arthur, carried penitential faggots at St Paul's Cross as a token of abjuration of heresy. With this act both men formally cleansed their souls and brought about their reconciliation with the Church. Far from being the end of a story, however, this ceremony proved to be the beginning of a controversy which has survived until the present day. For Thomas Bilney subsequently renounced his abj…
The ‘Expulsion of the Minions’ of 1519 Reconsidered
In recent years the word ‘faction’ has come to dominate study of the early modern period. Despite various reservations concerning precisely what is denoted by the term, historians have begun enthusiastically to look beyond the external appearances of political events to identify the hidden, factional, motives which are assumed to have prompted them. Owing in large part to the pioneering work of Drs D. R. Starkey and E. W. Ives, the reign of Henry…
Humanism, reform and the reformation
(1991). Humanism, reform and the reformation: The career of Bishop John Fisher. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 269-276
The blind devotion of the people
England's iconoclasts
(1991). England's iconoclasts: Laws against images. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 269-269
The premature reformation
The premature reformation: Wycliffite texts and lollard history." History of European Ideas, 13(3), p. 269
In defence of the church catholic
(1992). In defence of the church catholic: The life of Stephen Gardiner. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 575-575
London and the reformation
Drama and the market in the age of Shakespeare
Political protest and prophehecy under Henry VIII
(1994). Political protest and prophehecy under Henry VIII, History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 407-415
War and border societies in the middle ages
(1994). War and border societies in the middle ages. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 797-797
Political thought and tudor commonwealth
Factional politics and the english reformation, 1520–1540
(1994). Factional politics and the english reformation, 1520–1540, History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 407-407
Theatre and Reformation
Preface Introduction 1. 'Bale and his fellowes' 2. The King's Men and other troupes 3. Reformation playwrights and plays 4. Reformation drama and education 5. Churches and other playing places 6. Changing Reformation attitudes to playing
Literacy, authorship, and belief in medieval and renaissance Europe
Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530. Edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xxv + 293 pp., £37.50/$59.95 cloth. Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. By Andrew Hadfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvii + 261 pp., £35.00/$59.59 cloth. Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University, and Town Stages, 1464–1720. B…
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Greg Walker provides a new account of the relationship between politics and drama in the turbulent period from the accession of Henry VIII to the reign of Elizabeth I. Building upon ideas first developed in Plays of Persuasion (1991), he focuses on political drama in both England and Scotland, exploring the complex relationships between politics, court culture and dramatic composition, performance and publication. Through a detailed analysis of o…
Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn
The lurid story of the fall of Anne Boleyn, her trial and condemnation on charges of multiple (and in one case incestuous) adultery has been used to support many different interpretations of the political and religious history of the reign of Henry VIII. This article argues that the fate of the queen and those accused with her was not the result of wider factional battles or a cynical sacrifice, either to appease a jaded king or to enable a shift…
The roots of Alexander Korda
Walker examines the life and career of the filmmaker Alexander Korda, from his early days in Hungary to the late 1930s. He examines Korda's Jewish roots, and the impact and influence of Jewish culture on his early career. Arguing for closer attention to the Jewish milieu in which he lived and worked, he examines the various attempts to elide or obfuscate Korda's Jewishness in contemporary accounts and more recent studies, and offers suggestions a…
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
Doormen
Doormen. Peter Bearman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005
And Here's Your Host
This essay examines the remarkable late-medieval English dramatic work known as the Croxton Play of the Sacrament—an ambivalent parochial re-interpretation of the Continental genre of the ‘host desecration play’. It suggests that the conventions, ideas and even the characters of the play are curiously distinct from those of the surviving, strongly antisemitic European plays, having seemingly undergone a sea change in the course of their journey f…
The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of s…
Henry VIII and his Afterlives
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