Gordon Kipling

Gordon Kipling was a professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles for over four decades. He was an avid scholar and researcher, studying pageantry and staging in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, including royal entries, other civic pageantry, and artistic representations of theatrical contexts. Dr. Kipling received the coveted Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980 and a Fulbright Scholarship in 1990. His 1998 book Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual

in the Medieval Civic Triumph won both the Otto Gründler Book Prize from the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, and the inaugural David Bevington prize for the Best New Book in Early Drama Studies from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.