{"id":89,"date":"2019-10-07T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2019-12-31T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T11:47:02","slug":"professor-gordon-mcmullan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/professor-gordon-mcmullan\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gordon McMullan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King\u2019s College London. He is a general textual editor of The Norton Shakespeare<\/em>, 3rd edition, and a general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. His publications include the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII<\/em> (2000) Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing <\/em>(2007) and, most recently, a collaborative monograph, Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016, <\/em>with Philip Mead and others (2018). He has edited several collections of essays, most recently Creativity in Later Life: Beyond Late Style<\/em>, co-edited with David Amigoni (London: Routledge, 2019). He established the long-running MA Shakespeare Studies, offered jointly with Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, in 2000. Between 2011 and 2016 he created and directed Shakespeare400, a consortium of London cultural organisations celebrating the Shakespeare Quatercentenary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theatre and Performance Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Books<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016,<\/em> with Philip Mead, and with Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Flaherty and Mark Houlahan; afterword by Catherine Moriarty (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare in Ten Acts,<\/em> edited with Zo\u00eb Wilcox (London: British Library, 2016) (shortlisted for the Society for Theatre Research Book Award 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet,<\/em> \u2018Norton Critical Editions\u2019 (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

General textual editor, with Suzanne Gossett, The Norton Shakespeare<\/em>, 3E, general editor Stephen J. Greenblatt, volume editors Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus and Walter Cohen (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance,<\/em> \u2018Essays in Honour of Ann Thompson\u2019, edited with Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Tempest<\/em> and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance: Prospero, Gielgud, Rylance\u2019, in Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir (eds), Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance<\/em> (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 145-68<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, <\/em>\u2018Norton Critical Edition\u2019 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII (All Is True),<\/em> \u2018Arden Shakespeare\u2019 (London: Thomson Learning, 2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher <\/em>(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Performance and Artistic Collaborations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Gordon is a recipient of the Sam Wanamaker Award, Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, 2016 [awarded \u2018to recognise, encourage and celebrate work which has increased our understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare and which has a similar quality to the pioneering work of the Globe\u2019s founder, Sam Wanamaker CBE\u2019]. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon was a member of the local organising committee, 2016 World Shakespeare Congress, a dual site international conference (c.<\/em> 800 delegates) in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, co-hosted with Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shakespeare Institute, Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare\u2019s Globe. He created and organised Shakespeare400, a London-based consortium of twenty-four major cultural organisations marking the Shakespeare Quatercentenary by together creating a season of over two hundred performances, exhibitions and other creative and cultural events across 2016. See https:\/\/shakespeare400.kcl.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the co-organiser, with Pascale Aebischer, \u2018Early Modern Jarman\u2019, a Jarman 2014 event, King\u2019s College London, 1 February 2014. He also served as dramaturg\/literary advisor for various productions: RSC, Globe, Old Vic, 1988-2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon is currently Principal Investigator on an AHRC Standard Grant project \u2018Shakespeare in the Royal Collections\u2019 (with CI Kate Retford, Birkbeck, and two postdocs, Sally Barnden and Kirsten Tambling), a three-year grant investigating the Shakespeare-related holdings in the Royal
Collections. This will lead to a conference and exhibition in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King\u2019s College London. He is a general textual editor of The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition, and a general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. His publications include the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII (2000) Shakespeare and the Idea of Late … <\/p>\n

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