Greg Walker is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include "John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s" (1998), "Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII" (1991), "Persuasive Fictions: Factions, Faith and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII" (1996), and "The Politics of Performance in Early-Renaissance Drama" (1998).