Taylor Institution Library
University of Oxford, Saint Giles', Oxford, OX1 3NA
UK
Greg is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, having previously been 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.
Greg has written widely on late-medieval drama and poetry, Renaissance literature, the history of the stage in the period before the building of the professional playhouses, and the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. He has also published on the early films of Alexander Korda and popular music in the 1970s.
He is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court project, with Professor Thomas Betteridge (Brunel University) and colleagues in Edinburgh, Southampton and Glasgow Universities, which, in collaboration with Historic Scotland and theatre professionals, staged productions of Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in Linlithgow Palace and Stirling Castle in June 2013.
This seminar is part of a series on the Future of Editing, convened by BDLSS, Bodleian Libraries.