- Shakespeare's Stagecraft (1967)
- The Wandering of the American People (1967)
- Drama, Stage, and Audience (1975)
- The Shakespeare Revolution (1977)
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice, Volume 2 (1979)
- The Elements of Drama (1981)
- The Shakespeare Wars (1982)
- Chekhov in Performance: A Commentary on the Major Stage Productions from the 1880s to the Present (1984)
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice, Volume 3 (1985)
- Shakespeare: A Historical Dictionary for Readers and Writers (1985)
- The English Stage: A History of Dramatic Performance (1991)
- Realism and Reality: British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1992)
- Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life (1996)
- Twentieth-Century Theatre: A Sourcebook (2000)
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2001)
- Shakespeare in Theory and Practice (2002)
- Shakespeare's Players (2005)
- Shakespeare: A Study (2007)