2018

Barker, S. (2018) Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence. In: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198727682

2017

Barker, S. (2017) “Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”: Conflict and Desire in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Songs of Leonard Cohen. In: Leonard Cohen: Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poem: Visions from the Tower of Song. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 11-26. ISBN 9781443816861

Barker, S. (2017) Shakespeare 300 and his Just War. In: Just War Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. (Submitted)

2016

Barker, S. (2016) Commentary on image: ‘Our House at Bayeux Sept 21 1818’. West Sussex Record Office: 70th Anniversary, 1946 – 2016.

Barker, S. (2016) "Undoing Kyd”: the Texts of the Spanish Tragedy. In: Doing Kyd. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 75-87. ISBN 9780719083822

2013

Barker, S. (2013) "Lost property": John Galsworthy and the search for "that stuffed shirt". In: The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation. Ashgate, Surrey, pp. 91-105. ISBN 9781409443223

2012

Barker, S. (2012) Shakespeare, Stratford and the Second World War. In: Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, culture, identity. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 199-217. ISBN 9781442644021

2010

Barker, S. (2010) Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. Continuum, London and New York. ISBN 9780826433855

Barker, S. (2010) "We gather honey from the weed": Shakespearean manoeuvres in the deserts of Iraq. The Tower of Babel, 6. pp. 11-24. ISSN 1724-3114

2008

Barker, S. (2008) Faking it: Persuasion and the Renaissance military subject. In: Shakespeare and War. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230205086

2007

Deloney, T. and Barker, S. (2007) The Gentle Craft. Non Canonical Early Modern Popular Texts . Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 9780754638940

Barker, S. (2007) War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748627653

2005

Barker, S. (2005) Shakespeare's Problem Plays: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida. New Casebooks . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333654279

Barker, S. (2005) “It’s An Actor, Boss, Unarmed”: the Rhetoric of Julius Caesar. In: Julius Caesar: New Critical Essays. Shakespeare Criticism . Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 9780415649469

2003

Barker, S. (2003) Allarme to England!”; Gender and Militarism in Early Modern England. In: Gender, Power, and Privilege in Early Modern Europe. Women and Men in History . Longman, Harlow and London. ISBN 9780582423299

2001

Barker, S. (2001) Dressing Up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture. In: Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam ; New York, NY. ISBN 978-9042013575

Barker, S. (2001) “The drugs don’t work”: Theatre, Theory ... and After. Literature and History - Third Series, 10 (2). pp. 79-83. ISSN 03061973

1998

Barker, S. (1998) Marx and Spenser: Some Timely New Lines. Irish Studies Review, 6 (3). pp. 307-350. ISSN 0967-0882

1997

Barker, S. (1997) Re-loading the Canon - Shakespeare and the Study Guides. In: Shakespeare and National Culture. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 42-58. ISBN 9780719050510

Barker, S. (1997) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Routledge English Texts . Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 9780415049474

1996

Barker, S. and Hill, V. (1996) A Month in Shakespeare Country: Shakespeare, Theory and Historicism. Literature and History - Third Series, 5 (1). ISSN 0306-1973

1995

Barker, S. (1995) “Between their titles and low name”: Shakespeare, Nation and the Contemporary Roi Fainéant. In: Contemporary Writing and National Identity. Sulis Press, Bath. ISBN 9780952685609

Barker, S. (1995) The Mary Rose Revisited: Tudor Myth, Popular History and “The tears that England owes". Journal of Popular Culture, 29 (4). pp. 51-68. ISSN 0022-3840

Barker, S. (1995) "A Matter of Mere contemplation..." The Politics of “Ease” and “Pleasure” in the Plays of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. In: Le Apertura Del Testo. Università di Palermo, Palermo.

1994

Barker, S. (1994) Bard or Bored? Shakespeare’s Place in the Curriculum and the Academy. Speech and Drama, 43 (1).

Barker, S. (1994) “But you must learn to know such slanders of the age...” - Literary Theory in the Study of Shakespeare. In: Bridging the Gap: Literary Theory in the Classroom. Locust Hill, Connecticut. ISBN 9780933951600

Barker, S. (1994) “Period” Detective Drama and the Limits of Contemporary Nostalgia: Inspector Morse and the Strange Case of a Lost England. Critical Survey, 6 (2). pp. 234-242. ISSN 0011-1570

1992

Barker, S. (1992) “The Double-armed Man” - Images of the Medieval in Early Modern Military Idealism. In: From Medieval to Medievalism. Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 101-121. ISBN 978-1-349-22233-9

Barker, S. (1992) Winchester: History and Literature. King Alfred's College, York. ISBN 0907245048

1988

Barker, S. (1988) Shakespeare, War and the National Landscape. Arena, 83.

1986

Barker, S. (1986) Coriolanus: Texts and Histories. Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts, IV.

1984

Barker, S. (1984) Images of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In: Confronting the Crisis: Proceedings of the Essex Sociology of Literature Conference. University of Essex Press, Colchester. ISBN 9780901726223, 0901726222