Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he was previously Masson Professor of English, and Head of the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures between 2009 and 2011. Before that he was Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Historical Society, The English Association, The Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Norway). His research interests are in late medieval and Tudor literature and drama, and the cultural history of the sixteenth century, but he has also written on the cinema of the 1930s and progressive rock music. With Elaine M. Treharne, he is co-editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series.
Preface 1. Origins: Early Years: Johan Johan and Witty and Witless 2. Faith, Hope, and Mendacity: The Four PP 3. Interlude: The Annus Mirabilis of 1529 4. Cynicism and Hope: Gentleness and Nobility 5. Conscience and Satire in A Play of Love 6. Complaining about the Weather: Heywood, Thomas More, and the Opening of the Reformation Parliament 7. Discordant Voices: The Pardoner and The Friar 8. The Significance of Heywood's Interludes 9. New Forms, New Challenges: Heywood's Songs: Merriness, Malice, and the Death of More 10. Discord, Dissent, and Division: England, 1534-1543 11. In Kent and Christendom?: The Nature of Heywood's Treason 12. Rehabilitation and Reformation: The Epigrams and Proverbs 13. The Accession of Mary Tudor: 'The eagle's bird has spread his wings' 14. Speaking in Parables: The Spider and the Fly 15. Bellicose Verse: 'Scarborough Warning' 16. 'When all that is to was is brought': A Time of Endings and Thoughts of Flight 17. 'At this my extreme age': 'Old Heywood' in Exile 18. 'His own life and nature': Reputation and Legacy
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