Professor Pamela King
- Professor of Medieval Studies (English Language & Linguistics)
email:
Pamela.King@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Critical Studies, Room 18, 12 University Gardens
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4521-1808Research interests
Research interests:
Late medieval literature, especially drama; manuscript studies; late medieval cultural history, especially tomb sculpture and burial practices, religious art; European civic festivals from the Middle Ages to present times; theatre history.
Biography: I was born and had my early education in north east Scotland. I am a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and York, and have held posts in the Universities of Warwick, York, London, and Cumbria. Before coming to Glasgow I held the Chair in Medieval Studies in the University of Bristol.
Projects:
- The ESF Exploratory Workshop, held in CEU Budapest in September 2012, on “Re-inventions of Early-European Performing Arts and the Creative City, Civic Regeneration and Cultural Tourism” has involved collaborating with colleagues from central and west Europe and in the Centre of Excellence for the Study of the History of Emotion at the University of Western Australia, bringing together theatre historians, musicologists, sociologists, festival producers and theatre practitioners. The resulting network is devising new ways to collaborate in applying for further funding but also in establishing a web-based knowledge-exchange network of civic festivals based on medieval themes. MedFestUK has been born and is being engaged to assist Hereford Cathedral plan a Midsummer/Corpus Christi celebration to engage the whole city in 2015.
- The archive-based project sponsored by WUN, has involved collaborating with colleagues in Toronto, Sydney, Leeds, Cape Town and Lancaster, as well as with Bristol Theatre Collection, on Modern Productions of Medieval Plays, which led to the formation of an on-line collection level catalogue of modern productions of medieval plays in the Anglophone world. Adding to the catalogue is ongoing.
- “1652 Country: George Fox and the Early Quakers in the North West”, funded by the British Academy in 2004 got underway with my involvement, though I later pulled out when I left lancaster.
- I was co-director of York Doomsday Project, a large-scale, multi-media computing project on mystery plays, with the collaboration of the Department of Manuscripts in the British Library (“Initiatives for Access”), funded in 1995-96 by the British Academy, and by Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlanderen of Belgium, and the British Council for related joint work with the Centre for Medieval Studies, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, on links between Britain and the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages, with special emphasis on mercantile connections and pageantry.
Publications
2021
King, P. (2021) The Taill of Rauf CoilȜear and Secunda Pastorum. Notes and Queries, 68(2), pp. 168-169. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjab049)
King, P. (2021) Dunbar. In: Boffey, J. and Edwards, A.S.G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook to Poetry in English. Oxford University Press: Oxford. (In Press)
King, P. (2021) Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts. Series: Shifting paradigms in early English drama and performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367441180
2020
King, P. (2020) The "Wakefield Master" revisited. In: Boffey, J. (ed.) Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (XXX). Shaun Tyas: Donington, pp. 110-128. ISBN 9781907730856
2019
King, P. M. (2019) Patronage, performativity, and ideas of Corpus Christi. In: Feingold, M. and Watts, J. (eds.) Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, c.1450-c.1600. Series: History of Universities series (XXXII). Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 59-80. ISBN 9780198848523
King, P. (2019) The Coventry playbooks. In: Atkin, T. and Estill, L. (eds.) Early British Drama in Manuscript. Series: British manuscripts. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 33-54. ISBN 9782503575469 (doi: 10.1484/M.BM-EB.5.116443)
King, P. (2019) Gavin Douglas, aesthetic organisation, and individual distraction. In: Atkin, T. and Rajsic, J. (eds.) Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY, pp. 53-72. ISBN 9781843845317
2018
Twycross, M. (2018) The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies. Series: Variorum collected studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781472488084
2017
King, P. M. (2017) Biblical drama. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781118396988 (doi: 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb594)
King, P. M. (2017) York Cycle. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781118396988 (doi: 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb593)
2016
King, P. (Ed.) (2016) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P. (2016) Introduction. In: King, P. (ed.) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P. (2016) Manuscripts, antiquarians, editors and critics: the historiography of reception. In: King, P. (ed.) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P., Carpenter, S., Walker, G. and Twycross, M. (Eds.) (2016) The Best Pairt of Our Play: Essays Presented to John J. McGavin [Volume 2]. Series: Medieval English Theatre. Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge. ISBN 9781843844518
King, P. (2016) Poetics and beyond: noisy bodies and aural variations in medieval English outdoor performance. Medieval English Theatre, 38,
2015
King, P. (2015) "Medieval" and "renaissance": the problem of events, their records and their players. In: Hutton, R. (ed.) Medieval or Early Modern: The Value of a Traditional Historical Division. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9781443874519
King, P., Carpenter, S., Walker, G. and Twycross, M. eds. (2015) The Best Pairt of Our Play: Essays Presented to John J. McGavin [Volume 1]. Series: Medieval English Theatre, 37. Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge. ISBN 9781843844167
2014
King, P. M. (2014) Medieval English religious plays as early fifteenth-century vernacular theology: the case against. In: Kelly, S. and Perry, R. (eds.) Devotional Culture in late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life. Series: Medieval church studies (31). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 533-522. ISBN 9782503549354 (doi: 10.1484/M.MCS-EB.6.09070802050003050409030504)
King, P. M. (2014) Rules of exchange in Medieval plays and play manuscripts. In: Sell, R. D. (ed.) Literature as Dialogue: Invitations Offered and Negotiated. Series: Dialogue studies, 22. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9789027210395 (doi: 10.1075/ds.22.09kin)
2013
King, P. M. (2013) The Early English passion play. Yearbook of English Studies, 43, pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.5699/yearenglstud.43.2013.0069)
2012
King, P. (2012) The end of the world in medieval English religious drama. Literature and Theology, 26(4), pp. 384-399. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frs048)
King, P. (2012) Texts in plays: the case of Mankynde. Medieval English Theatre, 34, pp. 45-57.
King, P. (2012) "They have eyes that they might not see": exploring object, display and gaze in religious drama. In: Jaritz, G. (ed.) Ritual, Images, and Daily Life: The Medieval Perspective. Series: Geschichte. Forschung und Wissenschaft, 39. LIT-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9783643901132
King, P. and Heywood, J. (2012) The play of the weather. In: Betteridge, T. and Walker, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 207-223. ISBN 9780199566471
2011
King, P.M. (2011) Medieval Literature 1300-1500. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748634590
2010
King, P. (2010) Civic space and gender roles in Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa. In: Cross, M. (ed.) Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, UK, pp. 244-259. ISBN 9780230272576
King, P. (2010) Confraternities and civic ceremonial: the siena palio. In: Rogerson, M. (ed.) The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City. York Medieval Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 181-204. ISBN 9781903153352
King, P. (2010) Drama: sacred and secular. In: Saunders, C. (ed.) Companion to Medieval Poetry. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 67. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 626-646. ISBN 9781405159630
2009
King, P. (2009) Memorials of Ralph Woodford (d.1498) Ashby Folville, Leicestershire: the death of the author? In: Boffey, J. and Davies, V. (eds.) Recording Medieval Lives: Proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (17). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 182-188. ISBN 9781900289955
2008
Butterworth, P., King, P. and Twycross, M. (Eds.) (2008) According to the Ancient Custom: Essays Presented to David Mills. Series: Medieval English theatre. Lancaster University: Lancaster, UK.
King, P. (2008) Losing faith in transformation: protestantism and theatre. Mediaevalia, 29, pp. 79-94.
King, P. (2008) The morality plays. In: Beadle, R. and Fletcher, A.J. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 235-262. ISBN 9780521864008
2007
King, P. (2007) Playing Pentecost: transformations and texts. Medieval English Theatre, 29, pp. 60-74.
King, P.M. (2007) The York mystery plays. In: Brown, P. (ed.) A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture: c.1350-c.1500. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (42). Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, USA, pp. 1350-1500. ISBN 9780631219736
2006
King, P.M. (2006) The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City. Series: Westfield medieval studies, 1. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843840985
2005
King, P. (2005) The renaissance of medieval theatre and the growth of university drama in England. Medieval English Theatre, 27, pp. 105-130.
King, P. (2005) The renaissance of medieval theatre and the growth of university drama in England. Medieval English Theatre, 27, pp. 105-130.
2004
King, P.M. (2004) Doomsday as hypertext: contexts of Doomsday in Fifteenth-Century northern manuscripts, 2: British Library Add. MS 37049. In: Morgan, N.J. (ed.) Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom: Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (12). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 391-403. ISBN 9781900289689
2003
King, P. (2003) 'My image to be made all naked': cadaver tombs and the commemoration of women in fifteenth-century England. Ricardian, 13, pp. 294-314.
King, P. (2003) The York Plays in performance: Civitas versus Templum. Medieval English Theatre, 25, pp. 84-97.
King, P.M. (2003) Treasurer’s cadaver in York minster reconsidered. In: Dobson, B., Barron, C.M. and Stratford, J. (eds.) Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R.B. Dobson: Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (11). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 196-209. ISBN 9781900289528
King, P.M. (2003) The York cycle and instruction on the sacraments. In: Rees-Jones, S. (ed.) Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad. Series: Utrecht studies in medieval literacy (3). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 155-178. ISBN 9782503510767
2001
Carpenter, S., King, P.M. and Meredith, P. (2001) Porci Ante Margaritam: Essays in Honour of Meg Twycross. Series: Leeds studies in English, new series, 32. University of Leeds: Leeds, UK.
King, P.M. (2001) He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye. Leeds Studies in English, 32, pp. 212-228.
King, P.M. (2001) Metaphysical Poets. Series: York notes, advanced. York Press: Harlow, UK. ISBN 9780582431584
2000
King, P. (2000) The York plays and the feast of Corpus Christi: a reconsideration. Medieval English Theatre, 22, pp. 13-32.
King, P.M. (2000) Corpus Christi: Valencia. European Medieval Drama, 4, pp. 181-205. (doi: 10.1484/J.EMD.2.300800)
King, P.M. (2000) The Miller's Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer: Note. Series: York notes: advanced. York Press: London, UK. ISBN 9780582424616
King, P.M. (2000) Seeing and hearing: the audience of medieval plays. Early Theatre, 3(1), pp. 155-166.
King, P.M. and Davidson, C. (2000) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. Series: Early drama, art, and music monograph series, 27. Medieval Institute Publications: Michigan, MI, USA. ISBN 9781580440554
1999
King, P.M. (1999) Contemporary cultural models for the trial plays in the York cycle. In: Hindley, A. (ed.) Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe. Series: Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe (1). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 200-216. ISBN 9782503507675
1998
King, P.M. (1998) Calendar and text: Christ's ministry in the York plays and the liturgy. Medium Aevum, 67(1), pp. 30-59.
King, P.M. (1998) Corpus Christi plays and the ‘Bolton hours’ 1: tastes in lay piety and patronage in fifteenth-century York. Medieval English Theatre, 18, pp. 46-62.
King, P.M. , Twycross, M. and Prescott, A. (1998) The York Doomsday project. In: Carpenter, L., Prescott, A. and Shaw, S. (eds.) Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Programme. British Library: London, UK, pp. 50-57. ISBN 9780712345408
1997
King, P.M. (1997) Coventry Mystery Plays. Series: Coventry and county heritage series, 22. Coventry Branch of the Historical Association: Coventry, UK. ISBN 9781873206225
King, P.M. (1997) The York and Coventry mystery cycles: a comparative model of civic response to growth and recession. Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, 22(1), pp. 20-25.
1996
King, P.M. (1996) The festa d'elx: civic devotion, display and identity. In: Twycross, M. (ed.) Festive Drama: Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, 1989. D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, UK, pp. 95-109. ISBN 9780859914963
1995
Boeffy, J. and King, P.M. (1995) London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages. Series: Westfield publications in medieval studies (9). Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: London, UK. ISBN 9781870059077
King, P. (1995) Records of early English drama: reflections of a hardened user. Medieval English Theatre, 17, pp. 52-57.
King, P.M. (1995) York plays, urban piety, and the case of Nicholas Blackburn, Mercer. Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 232, pp. 37-50.
1994
King, P.M. (1994) The morality plays. In: Beadle, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 240-264. ISBN 9780521366700
1993
King, P. (1993) Corpus Christi, Valencia. Medieval English Theatre, 15, pp. 103-110.
King, P. (1993) Minority plays: two interludes for Edward VI. Medieval English Theatre, 15, pp. 87-102.
King, P.M. (1993) Minority plays: interludes for children and the fashioning of Edward VI. In: Maslen, E. and Dixon, P. (eds.) Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues. Short Run Press: Exeter, UK, pp. 14-34. ISBN 9780952157700
1992
King, P.M. and Salvador-Rabaza, A. (1992) The festa or Misteri of Elx: a modern English translation. Medieval English Theatre, 14, pp. 4-21.
1991
King, P.M. (1991) Algunes reflexions sobre la vinguda de la marededeu: significats i origens. In: Ramos, R., Mas Miralle, A., Gonzalez, J.M. and Otros, Y. (eds.) Festa D'Elx 1991. Departament de Publicacions de l'Excm: Elche, Spain, pp. 171-177.
King, P.M. (1991) Chaucer Chaucerians and the theme of poetry. In: Boffey, J. and Cowan, J. (eds.) Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. Series: King's College London medieval studies (5). Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies: London, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780951308547
1990
King, P. (1990) Elche again: the venida and the Semana Santa. Medieval English Theatre, 12(1), pp. 4-20.
King, P.M. (1990) The cadaver tomb in England: novel manifestations of an old idea. Church Monuments, 5, pp. 26-38.
King, P.M. (1990) Faith, reason and the prophets' dialogue from the Coventry pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors. In: Redmond, J. (ed.) Drama and Philosophy. Series: Themes in drama (12). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 37-46. ISBN 9780521383813
Llorenç, A. and King, P.M. (1990) La Festa D'Elx. Patronato Nacional del Misterio de Elche: San Vicente, Spain.
1989
King, P.M. (1989) La festa d'elx: algunes observacions d'una forastera. In: Festa d'Elx: 41. Departament de Publicacions de l'Excm: Elche, Spain, pp. 165-177.
King, P.M. (1989) Le transi anglais: une nouvelle perception d'une idee ancienne. In: Grégoire, R. (ed.) La Figuration des Morts dans la Chrétienté Médiévale Jusqu'à la Fin du Premier Quart du XIVe Siècle. Series: Cahier de Fontevraud (1). Centre culturel de l'Ouest: Fontevrault, France, pp. 253-269.
1987
King, P.M. (1987) Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre. In: Redmond, J. (ed.) The Theatrical space. Series: Themes in drama (9). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 45-58. ISBN 9780521334716
1986
King, P. and Salvador-Rabaza, A. (1986) La festa d’Eelx: the festival of the assumption of the virgin, Elche. Medieval English Theatre, 8(1), pp. 21-50.
King, P.M. (1986) Drames anglesos sobre l'assumpcio de la verge. In: Mon I Misteri de la Festa D'Elx. Generalitat Valenciana: Valencia, Spain, pp. 185-195. ISBN 9788475791456
1984
Beadle, R. and King, P.M. (1984) York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198111894
King, P.M. (1984) Dunbar's the golden targe: a chaucerian masque. Studies in Scottish Literature, 19(1), pp. 115-131.
King, P.M. (1984) The English cadaver tomb in the late fifteenth century: some indications of a Lancastrian connection. In: Taylor, J.H.M. (ed.) Dies Illa: Death in the Middle Ages. Series: Vinaver studies in French (1). F. Cairns: Liverpool, UK, pp. 45-57. ISBN 9780905205182
1981
King, P.M. (1981) Eight English memento mori verses from cadaver tombs. Notes and Queries, 28(6), pp. 525-526.
Articles
King, P. (2021) The Taill of Rauf CoilȜear and Secunda Pastorum. Notes and Queries, 68(2), pp. 168-169. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjab049)
King, P. (2016) Poetics and beyond: noisy bodies and aural variations in medieval English outdoor performance. Medieval English Theatre, 38,
King, P. M. (2013) The Early English passion play. Yearbook of English Studies, 43, pp. 69-86. (doi: 10.5699/yearenglstud.43.2013.0069)
King, P. (2012) The end of the world in medieval English religious drama. Literature and Theology, 26(4), pp. 384-399. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/frs048)
King, P. (2012) Texts in plays: the case of Mankynde. Medieval English Theatre, 34, pp. 45-57.
King, P. (2008) Losing faith in transformation: protestantism and theatre. Mediaevalia, 29, pp. 79-94.
King, P. (2007) Playing Pentecost: transformations and texts. Medieval English Theatre, 29, pp. 60-74.
King, P. (2005) The renaissance of medieval theatre and the growth of university drama in England. Medieval English Theatre, 27, pp. 105-130.
King, P. (2005) The renaissance of medieval theatre and the growth of university drama in England. Medieval English Theatre, 27, pp. 105-130.
King, P. (2003) 'My image to be made all naked': cadaver tombs and the commemoration of women in fifteenth-century England. Ricardian, 13, pp. 294-314.
King, P. (2003) The York Plays in performance: Civitas versus Templum. Medieval English Theatre, 25, pp. 84-97.
King, P.M. (2001) He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye. Leeds Studies in English, 32, pp. 212-228.
King, P. (2000) The York plays and the feast of Corpus Christi: a reconsideration. Medieval English Theatre, 22, pp. 13-32.
King, P.M. (2000) Corpus Christi: Valencia. European Medieval Drama, 4, pp. 181-205. (doi: 10.1484/J.EMD.2.300800)
King, P.M. (2000) Seeing and hearing: the audience of medieval plays. Early Theatre, 3(1), pp. 155-166.
King, P.M. (1998) Calendar and text: Christ's ministry in the York plays and the liturgy. Medium Aevum, 67(1), pp. 30-59.
King, P.M. (1998) Corpus Christi plays and the ‘Bolton hours’ 1: tastes in lay piety and patronage in fifteenth-century York. Medieval English Theatre, 18, pp. 46-62.
King, P.M. (1997) The York and Coventry mystery cycles: a comparative model of civic response to growth and recession. Records of Early English Drama Newsletter, 22(1), pp. 20-25.
King, P. (1995) Records of early English drama: reflections of a hardened user. Medieval English Theatre, 17, pp. 52-57.
King, P.M. (1995) York plays, urban piety, and the case of Nicholas Blackburn, Mercer. Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 232, pp. 37-50.
King, P. (1993) Corpus Christi, Valencia. Medieval English Theatre, 15, pp. 103-110.
King, P. (1993) Minority plays: two interludes for Edward VI. Medieval English Theatre, 15, pp. 87-102.
King, P.M. and Salvador-Rabaza, A. (1992) The festa or Misteri of Elx: a modern English translation. Medieval English Theatre, 14, pp. 4-21.
King, P. (1990) Elche again: the venida and the Semana Santa. Medieval English Theatre, 12(1), pp. 4-20.
King, P.M. (1990) The cadaver tomb in England: novel manifestations of an old idea. Church Monuments, 5, pp. 26-38.
King, P. and Salvador-Rabaza, A. (1986) La festa d’Eelx: the festival of the assumption of the virgin, Elche. Medieval English Theatre, 8(1), pp. 21-50.
King, P.M. (1984) Dunbar's the golden targe: a chaucerian masque. Studies in Scottish Literature, 19(1), pp. 115-131.
King, P.M. (1981) Eight English memento mori verses from cadaver tombs. Notes and Queries, 28(6), pp. 525-526.
Books
King, P. (2021) Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts. Series: Shifting paradigms in early English drama and performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367441180
King, P., Carpenter, S., Walker, G. and Twycross, M. eds. (2015) The Best Pairt of Our Play: Essays Presented to John J. McGavin [Volume 1]. Series: Medieval English Theatre, 37. Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge. ISBN 9781843844167
King, P.M. (2011) Medieval Literature 1300-1500. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748634590
King, P.M. (2006) The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City. Series: Westfield medieval studies, 1. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843840985
Carpenter, S., King, P.M. and Meredith, P. (2001) Porci Ante Margaritam: Essays in Honour of Meg Twycross. Series: Leeds studies in English, new series, 32. University of Leeds: Leeds, UK.
King, P.M. (2001) Metaphysical Poets. Series: York notes, advanced. York Press: Harlow, UK. ISBN 9780582431584
King, P.M. (2000) The Miller's Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer: Note. Series: York notes: advanced. York Press: London, UK. ISBN 9780582424616
King, P.M. and Davidson, C. (2000) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. Series: Early drama, art, and music monograph series, 27. Medieval Institute Publications: Michigan, MI, USA. ISBN 9781580440554
King, P.M. (1997) Coventry Mystery Plays. Series: Coventry and county heritage series, 22. Coventry Branch of the Historical Association: Coventry, UK. ISBN 9781873206225
Boeffy, J. and King, P.M. (1995) London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages. Series: Westfield publications in medieval studies (9). Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: London, UK. ISBN 9781870059077
Llorenç, A. and King, P.M. (1990) La Festa D'Elx. Patronato Nacional del Misterio de Elche: San Vicente, Spain.
Beadle, R. and King, P.M. (1984) York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198111894
Book Sections
King, P. (2021) Dunbar. In: Boffey, J. and Edwards, A.S.G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook to Poetry in English. Oxford University Press: Oxford. (In Press)
King, P. (2020) The "Wakefield Master" revisited. In: Boffey, J. (ed.) Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (XXX). Shaun Tyas: Donington, pp. 110-128. ISBN 9781907730856
King, P. M. (2019) Patronage, performativity, and ideas of Corpus Christi. In: Feingold, M. and Watts, J. (eds.) Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, c.1450-c.1600. Series: History of Universities series (XXXII). Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 59-80. ISBN 9780198848523
King, P. (2019) The Coventry playbooks. In: Atkin, T. and Estill, L. (eds.) Early British Drama in Manuscript. Series: British manuscripts. Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 33-54. ISBN 9782503575469 (doi: 10.1484/M.BM-EB.5.116443)
King, P. (2019) Gavin Douglas, aesthetic organisation, and individual distraction. In: Atkin, T. and Rajsic, J. (eds.) Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY, pp. 53-72. ISBN 9781843845317
King, P. M. (2017) Biblical drama. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781118396988 (doi: 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb594)
King, P. M. (2017) York Cycle. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781118396988 (doi: 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb593)
King, P. (2016) Introduction. In: King, P. (ed.) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P. (2016) Manuscripts, antiquarians, editors and critics: the historiography of reception. In: King, P. (ed.) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P. (2015) "Medieval" and "renaissance": the problem of events, their records and their players. In: Hutton, R. (ed.) Medieval or Early Modern: The Value of a Traditional Historical Division. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9781443874519
King, P. M. (2014) Medieval English religious plays as early fifteenth-century vernacular theology: the case against. In: Kelly, S. and Perry, R. (eds.) Devotional Culture in late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life. Series: Medieval church studies (31). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 533-522. ISBN 9782503549354 (doi: 10.1484/M.MCS-EB.6.09070802050003050409030504)
King, P. M. (2014) Rules of exchange in Medieval plays and play manuscripts. In: Sell, R. D. (ed.) Literature as Dialogue: Invitations Offered and Negotiated. Series: Dialogue studies, 22. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 177-196. ISBN 9789027210395 (doi: 10.1075/ds.22.09kin)
King, P. (2012) "They have eyes that they might not see": exploring object, display and gaze in religious drama. In: Jaritz, G. (ed.) Ritual, Images, and Daily Life: The Medieval Perspective. Series: Geschichte. Forschung und Wissenschaft, 39. LIT-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9783643901132
King, P. and Heywood, J. (2012) The play of the weather. In: Betteridge, T. and Walker, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 207-223. ISBN 9780199566471
King, P. (2010) Civic space and gender roles in Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa. In: Cross, M. (ed.) Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, UK, pp. 244-259. ISBN 9780230272576
King, P. (2010) Confraternities and civic ceremonial: the siena palio. In: Rogerson, M. (ed.) The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City. York Medieval Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 181-204. ISBN 9781903153352
King, P. (2010) Drama: sacred and secular. In: Saunders, C. (ed.) Companion to Medieval Poetry. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 67. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 626-646. ISBN 9781405159630
King, P. (2009) Memorials of Ralph Woodford (d.1498) Ashby Folville, Leicestershire: the death of the author? In: Boffey, J. and Davies, V. (eds.) Recording Medieval Lives: Proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (17). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 182-188. ISBN 9781900289955
King, P. (2008) The morality plays. In: Beadle, R. and Fletcher, A.J. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 235-262. ISBN 9780521864008
King, P.M. (2007) The York mystery plays. In: Brown, P. (ed.) A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture: c.1350-c.1500. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (42). Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, USA, pp. 1350-1500. ISBN 9780631219736
King, P.M. (2004) Doomsday as hypertext: contexts of Doomsday in Fifteenth-Century northern manuscripts, 2: British Library Add. MS 37049. In: Morgan, N.J. (ed.) Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom: Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (12). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 391-403. ISBN 9781900289689
King, P.M. (2003) Treasurer’s cadaver in York minster reconsidered. In: Dobson, B., Barron, C.M. and Stratford, J. (eds.) Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R.B. Dobson: Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton medieval studies (11). Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 196-209. ISBN 9781900289528
King, P.M. (2003) The York cycle and instruction on the sacraments. In: Rees-Jones, S. (ed.) Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad. Series: Utrecht studies in medieval literacy (3). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 155-178. ISBN 9782503510767
King, P.M. (1999) Contemporary cultural models for the trial plays in the York cycle. In: Hindley, A. (ed.) Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe. Series: Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe (1). Brepols: Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 200-216. ISBN 9782503507675
King, P.M. , Twycross, M. and Prescott, A. (1998) The York Doomsday project. In: Carpenter, L., Prescott, A. and Shaw, S. (eds.) Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Programme. British Library: London, UK, pp. 50-57. ISBN 9780712345408
King, P.M. (1996) The festa d'elx: civic devotion, display and identity. In: Twycross, M. (ed.) Festive Drama: Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, 1989. D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, UK, pp. 95-109. ISBN 9780859914963
King, P.M. (1994) The morality plays. In: Beadle, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 240-264. ISBN 9780521366700
King, P.M. (1993) Minority plays: interludes for children and the fashioning of Edward VI. In: Maslen, E. and Dixon, P. (eds.) Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues. Short Run Press: Exeter, UK, pp. 14-34. ISBN 9780952157700
King, P.M. (1991) Algunes reflexions sobre la vinguda de la marededeu: significats i origens. In: Ramos, R., Mas Miralle, A., Gonzalez, J.M. and Otros, Y. (eds.) Festa D'Elx 1991. Departament de Publicacions de l'Excm: Elche, Spain, pp. 171-177.
King, P.M. (1991) Chaucer Chaucerians and the theme of poetry. In: Boffey, J. and Cowan, J. (eds.) Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. Series: King's College London medieval studies (5). Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies: London, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780951308547
King, P.M. (1990) Faith, reason and the prophets' dialogue from the Coventry pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors. In: Redmond, J. (ed.) Drama and Philosophy. Series: Themes in drama (12). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 37-46. ISBN 9780521383813
King, P.M. (1989) La festa d'elx: algunes observacions d'una forastera. In: Festa d'Elx: 41. Departament de Publicacions de l'Excm: Elche, Spain, pp. 165-177.
King, P.M. (1989) Le transi anglais: une nouvelle perception d'une idee ancienne. In: Grégoire, R. (ed.) La Figuration des Morts dans la Chrétienté Médiévale Jusqu'à la Fin du Premier Quart du XIVe Siècle. Series: Cahier de Fontevraud (1). Centre culturel de l'Ouest: Fontevrault, France, pp. 253-269.
King, P.M. (1987) Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre. In: Redmond, J. (ed.) The Theatrical space. Series: Themes in drama (9). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 45-58. ISBN 9780521334716
King, P.M. (1986) Drames anglesos sobre l'assumpcio de la verge. In: Mon I Misteri de la Festa D'Elx. Generalitat Valenciana: Valencia, Spain, pp. 185-195. ISBN 9788475791456
King, P.M. (1984) The English cadaver tomb in the late fifteenth century: some indications of a Lancastrian connection. In: Taylor, J.H.M. (ed.) Dies Illa: Death in the Middle Ages. Series: Vinaver studies in French (1). F. Cairns: Liverpool, UK, pp. 45-57. ISBN 9780905205182
Edited Books
Twycross, M. (2018) The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies. Series: Variorum collected studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781472488084
King, P. (Ed.) (2016) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472421401
King, P., Carpenter, S., Walker, G. and Twycross, M. (Eds.) (2016) The Best Pairt of Our Play: Essays Presented to John J. McGavin [Volume 2]. Series: Medieval English Theatre. Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge. ISBN 9781843844518
Butterworth, P., King, P. and Twycross, M. (Eds.) (2008) According to the Ancient Custom: Essays Presented to David Mills. Series: Medieval English theatre. Lancaster University: Lancaster, UK.
Grants
- Principal Investigator in a European Science Foundation funded Exploratory Workshop on “Re-inventions of Early-European Performing Arts and the Creative City, Civic Regeneration and Cultural Tourism”
- Principal Investigator on Worldwide Universities Network funded project on Medieval Plays in Modern Performance, 2010-11
- Contributing partner in Access Grid project led by University of Sheffield and funded by AHRC, 2006-07
- British Academy Major Award 2004 for ‘1652 Country’, a collaborative electronic project based around George Fox’s journal of his travels in Cumbria in 1652-53.
- British Academy Major Award 1995-96 for York Doomsday Project, co-directed with Prof. Meg Twycross of Lancaster University.
- Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlanderen of Belgium and the British Council, March 1997 for a joint project between York Doomsday Project the Centre for Medieval Studies, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.
- Scottish Education Department major competitive state studentship for D.Phil. study, 1977-79.
- Scottish Education Department competitive state studentship for MA study, 1976-77.
Supervision
I welcome applications from students who wish to work on any aspect of late medieval religious culture and literature. I am also interested in supervising projects on the revival of medieval performance practices from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
I have recently supervised postgraduate work on the Performance of Virtue in the Canterbury Tales, on Medieval Carolling Practices, on the Hereford Mappa Mundi, and on the place of medieval pageantry and plays in the Festival of Britain.
Teaching
No undergraduate teaching
