Books

i) Monographs

Suicide and Despair in the Jacobean Drama (Harvester, 1986), 193pp.

Webster and Ford (Macmillan, 1995), 174pp.

Derek Jarman (Manchester University Press, 2005), 210pp.

Work in progress: A book on science fiction and religion


ii) Edited volumes

Shakespeare and History, ed. Holger Klein and Rowland Wymer, vol. 6 of Shakespeare Yearbook (Edwin Mellen, 1996), 428pp.

The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage, ed. György E. Szönyi and Rowland Wymer, vol. 9 of Papers in English and American Studies (JATEPress, 2000), 214pp.

Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics, ed. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess and Rowland Wymer (D.S. Brewer, 2000), 270pp.

The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences, ed. Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer and Jason Lawrence (Palgrave, 2006), 215pp.

Chapters in books

'Jacobean Pageant or Elizabethan Fin-de-Siècle? The Political Context of Early Seventeenth-Century Tragedy,' in Jacobean Drama as Social Criticism, ed. James Hogg (Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp.45-58.

'Marlowe and Jarman: The Transformation of Edward II,' in Elizabethan Literature and Transformation, ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner (Stauffenberg Verlag, 1999), pp.273-81.

'Jacobean Tragedy,' in A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway (Blackwell, 2000), pp. 545-55.

' "The Essential Pivot of Our Culture": Derek Jarman's Engagement with Shakespeare,' in Not of an Age, but for All Time: Shakespeare across Lands and Ages, ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and György Szönyi, Austrian Studies in English (Braum Iler Verlag, 2004), pp. 295-310.

'Webster and Ford,' in Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 158-70.

'Tragedy and the Future,' in Tragedy in Transition, ed. Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 260-76.

Work in progress: A revised and expanded version of 'Jacobean Tragedy,' for a new edition of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway (Blackwell, 2000).

Articles

' "When I Behold the Heavens": A Reading of Doctor Faustus,' English Studies, 67 no.6 (1986), pp.505-10.

'Freud, Jung and the "Myth" of Psychoanalysis in The White Hotel,' Mosaic 22 no.1 (Winter 1989), pp.55-69.

'How "Safe" Is John Wyndham? A Closer Look at His Work, with Particular Reference to The Chrysalids,' Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, 55 (Summer, 1992), pp.25-36.

'What Do We Want from Theory and How Do We Get It?,' Critical Survey 4 no.3 (1992), pp.275-81.

'The Tempest and the Origins of Britain,' Critical Survey 11 no.1 (1999), pp.3-14.

' "The Audience Is Only Interested in Sex and Violence": Teaching the Renaissance on Film,' Working Papers on the Web, no.4 'Teaching Renaissance Texts' (2002).

'Shakespeare and the Mystery Cycles,' English Literary Renaissance, 34:3 (Autumn 2004), pp. 265-85.

' "A vörös csupán sikitó kék": Derek Jarman, Caravaggiója (1986),' Apertúra (2006).

Work in progress: 'On John Donne and Excitement: Two School Essays by Ted Hughes,' Times Literary Supplement.

Short Articles, Notes, Letters, and Reprints

'Lodovick Bryskett and Renaissance Attitudes to Suicide,' Notes and Queries, n.s.32 no.4 (Dec 1985), pp.480-2.

Letter about John Donne's Biathanatos, Times Literary Supplement (22.3.85), p.317.

'Opening Night,' in Essays on Film, ed. Brian Birch (University of Hull, 1987), pp.49-52.

Letter about Bernard Shaw's On the Rocks (part of the 'Marx and Genocide' correspondence), Times Literary Supplement (30.8.91), p.13.

'Why Childhood's End Remains a Classic,' Vector: The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association, 197 (Jan/Feb 1998), pp.6-7.

Reprint of 'Jacobean Pageant or Elizabethan Fin-de-Siècle? The Political Context of Early Seventeenth-Century Tragedy,' from Jacobean Drama as Social Criticism, ed. James Hogg (Edwin Mellen, 1995), in Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics, ed. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess, and Rowland Wymer (D.S. Brewer, 2000), pp.138-51.

Letter about the state of Shakespeare studies, Times Higher Education Supplement (21.1.05), p.15.

Letter about Ben Jonson's Sejanus ('Popery and treason'), Times Literary Supplement (16.9.05), p.17.

Letter about Derek Jarman's influence, Guardian (20.2.08)

Reviews

Review of The White Devil, Oxford Playhouse Nov 3-14 1981, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 26 (1983), pp.96-7.

Review of The Jew of Malta, Hull University Feb 2-4 1984, Renaissance Drama Newsletter, 5 no.1 (Spring 1984).

Review of Sir Philip Sidney: An Anthology of Modern Criticism, ed. Dennis Kay, and Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 1590, ed. Victor Skretkowicz, English Studies, 70 no.2 (1989), pp.178-9.

Review of Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theatre of Marlowe and Kyd, by C.L. Barber, and The White Devil and 'The Duchess of Malfi,' by Richard Allen Cave, English Studies, 71 no.3 (1990), pp.277-8.

Review of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: A 1604-Version Edition, ed. Michael Keefer, and The Elizabethan Player, by David Mann, English Studies, 74 no.3 (1993), pp.284-6.

Review of The Mental World of the Jacobean Court, ed. Linda Levy Peck, English Studies, 75 no.2 (1994), pp.186-7.

Review of Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage: The Moral Significance of Face-Painting Conventions, by Annette Drew-Bear, and Pencils Rhetorique: Renaissance Poets and the Art of Painting, by Judith Dundas, Modern Language Review, 90 no.4 (1995), pp.974-6.

Review of Shakespeare and the Christian Tradition, ed. E. Beatrice Batson, Modern Language Review, 91 no.2 (1996), p.445.

Review of 'Why Larkin's Poetry Gives Offence,' by James Booth, About Larkin (The Newsletter of the Philip Larkin Society), no.2 (1996), p.19.

Review of Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition, by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 37 no.1 (1997), pp.100-1.

Review of Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide, by Melissa Knox, Journal of Gender Studies, 6 no.3 (1997), pp.342-3.

Review of John Ford's Political Theatre, by Lisa Hopkins, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 10 (1998), pp.310-5.

Review of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, by John Kerrigan, Yearbook of English Studies, 29 (1999), pp.267-9.

Review of Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, by Leah S. Marcus, English Studies, 80 no.3 (1999), pp.267-9.

Review of Unspeakable Shaxxxpeares, by Richard Burt, Renaissance Forum, 5.2 (2001)

Review of Philosophical Shakespeare's, edited by John J. Joughin, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 42 no.4 (2002), pp.436-8.

Review of Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue, by Eileen Allman, Modern Language Review, 98.2 (2003), pp.433-4.