Professor Gordon Mcmullan

Biography

"I specialise in Shakespeare and early modern theatre and culture. I am a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare and a general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. With Ann Thompson and Sonia Massai and colleagues from UCL and Goldsmiths, I co-run the London Shakespeare Seminar and I am a longstanding member of the steering committee of the London Renaissance Seminar. The MA in Shakespeare Studies, taught jointly with Shakespeare’s Globe, which I created and convene, celebrates its first decade in 2010. I have been a Leverhulme Fellow and have held visiting fellowships at three Australian universities. With Philip Mead (University of Western Australia), I currently hold an Australian Research Council grant for a comparative study of the memorialisation of Shakespeare in 20th century Sydney and London. I am a founding member of the London Shakespeare Centre, launched at King’s in 2009."

Research Interest

Shakespearean and early modern drama, especially Jacobean theatre, with particular interests in cultural politics, in performance practices, in gender, and in issues of collaboration and repertory; the editing of Shakespearean and other early modern dramatic texts; the cultural and critical afterlife of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, notably the ways in which Shakespeare has been embedded in cultural memory in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the idea of ‘late writing’ or ‘late style’ across the artistic disciplines. My most recent monograph, Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death, was published by Cambridge in 2007.