Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Among his publications are John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (Cambridge UP, 1988, pbk, 2002), Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (CUP, 1991, pbk, 2009.), The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama (CUP, 1998, pbk, 2006), Medieval Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, pbk, 2000), Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (I.B. Tauris, 2003), Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford UP, 2005, pbk and on-line editions, 2007), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (co-edited with E.M. Treharne, OUP, 2010), The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, OUP, 2012), and over fifty articles and essays in journals and edited collections.

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• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Literature and History: the Risks of Conversation; SECTION 1: DRAMA; 1. Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance; 2. ‘To Speak before the King, it is no Child’s Play’: Godly Queen Hester in 1529; 3. Flytyng in the Face of Convention: Protest and Innovation in Lindsay’s Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; SECTION 2: POETRY; 4. Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 5. The Plowman’s Tale and the Politics of 1532: A Cautionary Tale?; 6. Rough Girls and Squeamish Boys: The Trouble with Absolon in The Miller’s Tale.