Selected Publications

  • A Spenser Chronology (1994)
  • Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997)
  • Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003)
  • Muriel Spark for Starters (2008)

Co-editor:

  • Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (1993)
  • Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition (1997)
  • Postcolonial Criticism (1997)
  • British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002)
  • Shakespeare and Scotland (2004)
  • Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006)
  • Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (2010)
  • The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (2010)
  • This England, That Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (2010)
  • Celtic Connections: Irish-Scottish Relations and the Politics of Culture (2013)
  • Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne; Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2013)
  • Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers (2013)
  • Scotland and the Easter Rising: Fresh Perspectives on 1916 (2016)
  • Commemorating Connolly: Contexts, Comparisons and Celtic Connections (2016)

Selected Plays

With John Maley:

  • From the Calton to Catalonia (Calton Books, 2014), https://www.calton-books.co.uk/books/from-the-calton-to-catalonia-john-willy-maley/
  • Gallowglass: The Glasgow-Edinburgh Railway Murder of 1840 (Clydeside Books, 1991)

With Ian Auld:

  • The Lions of Lisbon: A Play of Two Halves (Luath Press, 2017), https://www.luath.co.uk/productsl/the-lions-of-lisbon-a-play-of-two-halves-5y59n

Unpublished collaborative plays:

  • No Mean Fighter (1992)
  • Dirt Enters at the Heart (1993)
  • Doing Bird (1995)

See also Links to material published on other websites.