Barker, S. (2016) Commentary on image: ‘Our House at Bayeux Sept 21 1818’. West Sussex Record Office: 70th Anniversary, 1946 – 2016.
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
Barker, S. (2001) “The drugs don’t work”: Theatre, Theory ... and After. Literature and History - Third Series, 10 (2). pp. 79-83. ISSN 03061973
Barker, S. (1998) Marx and Spenser: Some Timely New Lines. Irish Studies Review, 6 (3). pp. 307-350. ISSN 0967-0882
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
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. (1994) Bard or Bored? Shakespeare’s Place in the Curriculum and the Academy. Speech and Drama, 43 (1).
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
Barker, S. (1988) Shakespeare, War and the National Landscape. Arena, 83.
Barker, S. (1986) Coriolanus: Texts and Histories. Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts, IV.
Barker, S. (2018) Farce and Force: Shakespearean Comedy, Militarism, and Violence. In: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198727682
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)
Barker, S. (2016) "Undoing Kyd”: the Texts of the Spanish Tragedy. In: Doing Kyd. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 75-87. ISBN 9780719083822
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
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
Barker, S. (2008) Faking it: Persuasion and the Renaissance military subject. In: Shakespeare and War. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230205086
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
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
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. (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. (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) "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.
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. (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. (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
Barker, S. (2010) Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. Continuum, London and New York. ISBN 9780826433855
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
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. (1997) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Routledge English Texts . Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 9780415049474
Barker, S. (1992) Winchester: History and Literature. King Alfred's College, York. ISBN 0907245048