Publications (Books)

Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist Restored (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024), pp. 400. ISBN9780691211602.

“It is no case of hyperbole to say that this is probably the most eagerly anticipated book in early modern authorship studies for many years. Broadening our understanding of the canon of Thomas Kyd is of the utmost importance, and discussions concerning its contours have already generated considerable interest. This book will have a huge impact.” —Darren Freebury-Jones, author of Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd

“Brian Vickers’s Thomas Kyd is beautifully unified, accessibly written, and convincing.” —Paul Werstine, author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare

“Brian Vickers’s study of the immensely important playwright Thomas Kyd contains much that is genuinely new and challenges received wisdom. It is a book every serious student of English Renaissance drama will want to read.” —Lukas Erne, University of Geneva

“Feisty and combative as ever, Brian Vickers has turned his formidable learning and literary detective skills to Thomas Kyd, an underrated dramatist if ever there was one. Expanding the Kyd canon considerably, Vickers demonstrates how the pioneering author was schooled in Latinate culture, was able to combine tragedy and comedy in ways few could rival, and was fascinated by powerful female characters. This challenging book will be required reading for anyone interested in the Shakespearean stage.” —Andrew Hadfield, author of John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion

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The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer). Vol. 1 (2024), pp. xvi + 625. ISBN978-1-84384-694-9.

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.

(Editor) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987); reprint with corrections and bibliographical additions, pp. xxx, 137.

(Editor) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. xxx, 137 (“Oxford English Novels” series).