The following bibliography comprises a complete list of my Books (B), Articles (A), and Reviews (R) from 1967 to the present. There is also available a more detailed list of Selected Works, with excerpts from reviews.
| 1967 | B1 | (Editor) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xxx, 137 (“Oxford English Novels” series). |
| 1968 | B2 | Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xi, 316. |
| B3 | The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose (London: Methuen), pp. ix, 452. | |
| B4 | (Editor) Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon (Hamden, CT: Archon Press), pp. xxiii, 323. English publication by Sidgwick & Jackson (London, 1972). – Introduction, pp. xi–xxiii. | |
| B5 | (Editor) The World of Jonathan Swift (Oxford: Blackwell; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), pp. ix, 273. – Introduction, pp. 1–24. | |
| 1969 | B6 | (Editor) Seventeenth Century Prose: An Anthology (London: Longman), pp. 266. |
| 1970 | B7 | Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (London: Macmillan), pp. 180. |
| 1973 | B8 | Towards Greek Tragedy (London: Longman), pp. xvi, 658; repr. 1979. |
| 1974 | B9 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 1. 1623–1692 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. xi, 448. |
| B10 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 2. 1693–1733 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. xi, 549. | |
| 1975 | B11 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 3. 1733–1752 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. xii, 487. |
| 1976 | B12 | (Editor) Hooker: The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. An Abridged Edition. Co-editor: A.S. McGrade (London: Sidgwick & Jackson), pp. 413. Introduction 2: “Hooker’s Prose Style”, pp. 41–59. |
| B13 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 4. 1753–1765 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. xiv, 583. | |
| B14 | Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (London: Edward Arnold), pp. 68. (“Studies in English Literature” series). | |
| 1978 | B15 | Francis Bacon (London: Longman), pp. 46; repr. in British Writers, ed. I. Scott-Kilvert, Vol. 1 (New York: Scribner’s, 1979), pp. 257–74. |
| 1979 | B16 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 5. 1765–1774 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. xvi, 569. |
| B3a | The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose. Revised Edition (London: Methuen), pp. x, 452. | |
| 1981 | B17 | (Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 6. 1774–1801 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 650. |
| 1982 | B18 | (Editor) Rhetoric Revalued. Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), pp. 281. – Introduction, pp. 13–39. |
| 1984 | B19 | (Editor) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xiv., 408. – Introduction, pp. 1–55. |
| 1985 | B20 | (Editor) Arbeit, Musse, Meditation. Betrachtungen zur Vita activa und Vita contemplativa (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine), pp. 307. (Proceedings of an international symposium held at the Centre for Renaissance Studies in 1981). – Introduction, pp. 1–19. |
| 1986 | B21 | (Editor) Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Mackenzie-Evelyn Debate (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints), pp. xlii, 277. – Introduction, pp. ix–xlii. |
| B19a | (Editor) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xiv., 408. – Introduction, pp. 1–55; paperback edn. ISBN-13: 9780521338363. | |
| 1987 | B22 | (Editor) English Science, Bacon to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xi, 244. |
| B1a | (Editor) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (Oxford: Oxford University Press); reprint with corrections and bibliographical additions, pp. xxx, 137. | |
| 1988 | B23a | In Defence of Rhetoric (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xi, 508. |
| B24 | Francis Bacon, German translation of B15 and A30 by Reinhard Kaiser (Berlin: Wagenbach), pp. 78. | |
| 1989 | B25 | Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry; second ed., with new Preface and additional bibliography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press), pp. vii, 186. |
| B23a | In Defence of Rhetoric; paperback edition, with corrections and bibliographical additions (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xi, 508. ISBN 978-0-19-811791-9 | |
| B26 | Returning to Shakespeare (London: Routledge), pp. viii, 257. | |
| 1990 | B19a | Mentalidades ocultas y científicas en el Renacimento (Madrid: Alianza Editorial), pp. 318. Abridged Spanish translation of B19 by Jorge Vigil Rubio. |
| 1991 | B20 | (Editor) second, revised ed., Arbeit, Musse, Meditation, Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (Zürich: Verlag der Fachvereine, and Stuttgart: Teubner), pp. 332. – Introduction, pp. xvii–xxii. |
| 1993 | B27 | Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (New Haven and London: Yale University Press), pp. xvi, 501. Paperback ed. 1994; repr. 1996. |
| 1994 | B23a | Storia della retorica (Bologna: il Mulino), pp. 649. Italian translation of B23 by Rocco Coronato; introduction by Andrea Battistini. |
| 1996 | B28 | (Editor) Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. li, 813. (“The Oxford Authors”) |
| B29 | (General editor) Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. King John, ed. by Joseph Candido (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xvi, 415. General Editor’s Preface, pp. vi–ix. | |
| 1997 | B23b | In Defence of Rhetoric. Third, corrected edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). |
| 1998 | B30 | (Editor) Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. x, 281. (“Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought”) |
| B31 | (General editor) Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Richard II, 1780–1920, ed. by Charles Forker (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xviii, 593. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xv. | |
| 1999 | B32 | (Editor) Francis Bacon, The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral (Oxford World’s Classics): pp. xliii, 216. |
| B33 | (General editor) Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1775–1920, ed. by Judith M. Kennedy and Richard F. Kennedy (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xxi, 461. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xix. | |
| *2000 | B34 | (Editor) English Renaissance Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xv, 675. ISBN: 978-0-19-818679-3 |
| 2001 | B35 | (General editor), Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Measure for Measure, 1783–1920, ed. by George Geckle (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xxxvi, 382. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xxxiv. |
| B1b | (Editor) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave (Oxford World’s Classics); repr. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-19-953862-1 | |
| B27a | Ripensare Shakespeare. Questioni di critica contemporanea (Milan). Italian translation of B27 by Mario Baccianini, Marina Merella, and Alessandra Di Luzio. | |
| 2002 | B36 | ‘Counterfeiting’ Shakespeare. Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford’s Funerall Elegye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xxvii, 568. |
| B37 | Shakespeare, Co-author. A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford University Press), pp. xxix, 561. ISBN: 978-0-19-925653-2. | |
| 2003 | B33a | (Editor) English Renaissance Literary Criticism, corrected edition, paperback (Oxford: Oxford University Press). ISBN: 978-0-19-926136-9 |
| 2004 | B38 | (General Editor) Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Coriolanus, 1687–1940, ed. by David George (London and New York; Continuum), pp. xxvi, 448. General Editor’s Preface, pp. viii–xxiii. |
| B37a | Shakespeare, Co-author. A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford University Press), pp. xxix, 561; paperback edition. ISBN: 978-0-19-926916-7; repr. 2008. | |
| 2005 | B39 | (Co-Editor) Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. The Merchant of Venice, ed. by William Baker and Brian Vickers (London and New York; Continuum), pp. xli, 437. General Editor’s Preface, pp. ix–xli. |
| B3b | The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, Third Edition (London: Routledge), pp.vii, 452. | |
| 2007 | B40 | Shakespeare, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xii, 329. |
| 2008 | B41 | (Co-author) Mächtige Worte. Antike Rhetorik und europäische Literatur, by Brian Vickers and Sabine Köllmann (Berlin: LIT-Verlag), partial translation of B23, with new material. |
| *2011 | B42 | (Co-editor) The Collected Works of John Ford, Volume I, edited by Gilles Monsarrat, Brian Vickers, and R.J.C.Watt (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. xiv, 720. ISBN: 978-0-19-959290-6. |
| 2012 | B42 | (Co-editor) (General Editor, The Oxford Francis Bacon): Alan Stewart, with Harriet Knight (eds.), Volume I: The Early Writings, 1584-1596, pp.lxi, 1066. ISBN: 978-0-19-818313-6. |
| 2016 | B42 | The One King Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. xxi + 387. ISBN 9780674504844. |
| B43 | The Complete Works of John Ford, Volume II and III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 29 September, 2016), pp. 992. ISBN 9780198748878. | |
| 2023 | B44 | (Editor) The Complete Works of John Ford, Volume IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 669. ISBN 978-0-19-286561-8. |
| B45 | Recovering Thomas Kyd: a Canon Restored (Princeton: Princeton University Press). MS delivered February 2023. | |
| 2024 | B46 | (Editor) The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer). Vol. 1 (2024). |
The Complete Works of John Ford, Volume II and III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 29 September, 2016), pp. 992. ISBN 9780198748878.
The One King Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 410. ISBN 9780674504844.
The Collected Works of John Ford, Volume I, edited by Gilles Monsarrat, Brian Vickers, and R. J. C.Watt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xiv, 720. ISBN: 978-0-19-959290-6
Mächtige Worte. Antike Rhetorik und europäische Literatur, by Brian Vickers and Sabine Köllmann (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2008), partial translation of B23, with new material.
Shakespeare, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. xii, 329.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. The Merchant of Venice, ed. by William Baker and Brian Vickers (London and New York; Continuum, 2004), pp. xli, 437. General Editor’s Preface, pp. ix–xli.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Coriolanus, 1687–1940, ed. by David George (London and New York; Continuum, 2004), pp. xxvi, 448. General Editor’s Preface, pp. viii–xxiii.
Shakespeare, Co-author. A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. xxix, 561. ISBN: 978-0-19-925653-2.
‘Counterfeiting’ Shakespeare. Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford’s Funerall Elegye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xxvii, 568.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Measure for Measure, 1783–1920, ed. by George Geckle (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 2001), pp. xxxvi, 382. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xxxiv.
English Renaissance Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), Pp. xv, 675. ISBN: 978-0-19-818679-3
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1775–1920, ed. by Judith M. Kennedy and Richard F. Kennedy (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 1999), pp. xxi, 461. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xix.
Francis Bacon, The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral (The Folio Society, 2002).
Francis Bacon, The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral (Oxford World’s Classics, 1999): pp. xliii, 216.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Richard II, 1780–1920, ed. by Charles Forker (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xviii, 593. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xv.
Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. x, 281. (“Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought”).
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. King John, ed. by Joseph Candido (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 1996), pp. xvi, 415. General Editor’s Preface, pp. vi–ix.
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. li, 813. (“Oxford World’s Classics”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. li, 813. (“The Oxford Authors”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. li, 813. (“The Oxford Authors”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. li, 813.
Ripensare Shakespeare. Questioni di critica contemporanea (Milan, 2001). Italian translation of B27 by Mario Baccianini, Marina Merella, and Alessandra Di Luzio.
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), pp. xvi, 501. Paperback ed. 1994; repr. 1996.
Returning to Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. viii, 257.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry; second ed., with new Preface and additional bibliography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. vii, 186.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry; second ed., with new Preface and additional bibliography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. vii, 186.
Francis Bacon, German translation of B15 and A30 by Reinhard Kaiser (Berlin: Wagenbach, 1988), pp. 78.
Storia della retorica (Bologna: il Mulino, 1994), pp. 649. Italian translation of B23 by Rocco Coronato; introduction by Andrea Battistini.
In Defence of Rhetoric (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. xi, 508.
(Editor) English Science, Bacon to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. xi, 244.
(Editor) English Science, Bacon to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. xi, 244.
(Editor) Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Mackenzie-Evelyn Debate (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1986), pp. xlii, 277. – Introduction, pp. ix–xlii.
(Editor) Arbeit, Musse, Meditation. Betrachtungen zur Vita activa und Vita contemplativa (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine, 1985), pp. 307. – Introduction, pp. 1–19.
(Editor) Mentalidades ocultas y científicas en el Renacimento (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1990), pp. 318. Abridged Spanish translation of B19 by Jorge Vigil Rubio.
(Editor) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. xiv., 408. – Introduction, pp. 1–55.
(Editor) Rhetoric Revalued. Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1981), pp. 281. – Introduction, pp. 13–39.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 6. 1774–1801 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), pp. 650.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 5. 1765–1774 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), pp. xvi, 569.
Francis Bacon (London: Longman, 1978), pp. 46; repr. in British Writers ed. I. Scott-Kilvert, Vol. 1 (New York: Scribner’s, 1979), pp. 257–74.
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (London: Edward Arnold, 1976), pp. 68. (“Studies in English Literature” series).
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 4. 1753–1765 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976), pp. xiv, 583.
(Editor) Hooker: The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. An Abridged Edition. Co-editor: A.S. McGrade (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976), pp. 413. Introduction 2: “Hooker’s Prose Style”, pp. 41–59.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 3. 1733–1752 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), pp. xii, 487.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 2. 1693–1733 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. xi, 549.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 1. 1623–1692 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. xi, 448.
Towards Greek Tragedy (London: Longman, 1973), pp. xvi, 658; repr. 1979.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (London: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 180.
(Editor) Seventeenth Century Prose: An Anthology (London: Longman, 1969), pp. 266.
(Editor) The World of Jonathan Swift (Oxford: Blackwell; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. ix, 273. – Introduction, pp. 1–24.
(Editor) Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), pp. xxiii, 323. – Introduction, pp. xi–xxiii.
(Editor) Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon (Hamden, CT: Archon Press, 1968), pp. xxiii, 323. English publication by Sidgwick & Jackson (London, 1972). – Introduction, pp. xi–xxiii.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, Third Edition (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. vii, 452.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, Revised Edition (London: Methuen, 1979), pp. x, 452.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose (London: Methuen, 1968), pp. ix, 452.
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), pp. xi, 316.
