Henry VIII: Video Introduction

Thank you to Gordon McMullan for offering our introduction to Henry VIII.

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London. He is a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare, 3E, for which he edited two texts of Romeo and Juliet, and a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series. His publications include The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (1994), the Arden 3 edition of Henry VIII (2000), Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (2007), the collaboratively authored Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 (2018), essays in a range of periodicals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama, and several collections of essays. By way of a change, he is currently writing a cultural history of the cormorant.

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.