Books:

• Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)
• Shakespeare and the Jews (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Co-editor of The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Associate editor of The Columbia History Of British Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)
• Co-Editor of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)
• Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000)

Articles:

• "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship, Easton, PA., Vol. 4 no. 6, 1986 Nov-Dec. p. 14
• "'Which is The Merchant here, and which The Jew?' Shakespeare and the Economics of Influence," Shakespeare Studies, Albuquerque, NM., Vol. 20, 1987, pp. 269-279
• "'Steale from the deade?' The Presence of Marlowe in Jonson's Early Plays." Renaissance Drama, Evanston, IL. Vol. 18, 1987, pp. 67-99
• "'Metre meete to furnish Lucans style': Reconsidering Marlowe's Lucan Friedenreich, Kenneth, Roma Gill, and Constance B. Kuriyama, (eds.) "A poet and a filthy playmaker": New Essays on Christopher Marlowe. (New York: AMS, 1988).
• "Revisiting Tamburlaine: Henry V as Shakespeare's Belated Armada Play," Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Detroit, MI., Vol. 31 no. 4, 1989 Fall, p. 351-366
• "'Tragedies Naturally Performed': Kyd's Representation of Violence, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587), in Kastan, David Scott and Peter Stallybrass (eds.), Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. (New York: Routledge, 1991) pp. 99-113
• "The Scot's Tragedy and the Politics of Popular Drama," English Literary Renaissance, Amherst, MA., Vol. 23 no. 3, 1993 Fall, pp. 428-29
• "Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama," Studies in English Literature, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 36 no. 2, 1996 Spring, pp. 481-525
• "Yes, a Big Seller Can Have Footnotes", The New York Times Book Review, June 15, 1997,

Reviews:

• Ghost Light, by Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review, October 29, 2000
• Bellow: A Biography, by James Atlas, The New York Times, October 16, 2000
• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, by Seamus Heaney, The New York Times, February 27, 2000
• Virgil: His Life and Times, by Peter Levi, The New York Times Book Review, 21 March 1999
• The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters, by Wendy Lesser, The New York Times Book Review, 28 February 1999
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom, New York Times Book Review, 1 November 1998
• Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel, by John Updike, The New York Times Book Review, October 25, 1998
• The Time of Our Time, by Norman Mailer, The New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1998
• Academic Duty, by Donald Kennedy, and All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education, by George Dennis O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review, January 4, 1998
• Barney's Version, by Mordecai Richler, The New York Times Book Review, December 21, 1997
• Tales From Ovid, by Ted Hughes., The New York Times Book Review, December 14, 1997
• The Nature of Blood, by Caryl Phillips., The New York Times Book Review, May 25, 1997
• The Dictionary of Global Culture, edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael Colin Vazquez, associate editor, The New York Times Book Review, February 2, 1997