2018

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Are Shakespeare's plays always metatheatrical? Shakespeare Bulletin , 36 (1). pp. 19-35. doi:10.1353/shb.2018.0002

Purcell, Stephen (2018) Performing the public at Shakespeare's Globe. Shakespeare, 14 (1). pp. 51-63. doi:10.1080/17450918.2018.1439091

2017

Purcell, Stephen (2017) 'It's all a bit of a risk' : reformulating 'liveness' in twenty-first century performances of Shakespeare. In: Bulman, James C., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199687169

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Practice-as-research and original practices. Shakespeare Bulletin , 35 (3). pp. 425-443. doi:10.1353/shb.2017.0033

Purcell, Stephen (2017) Shakespeare in the theatre : Mark Rylance at the Globe. Shakespeare in the Theatre . London: The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472581747

2016

Purcell, Stephen (2016) Synecdoches and symbols : fictional performances of King Lear. Litteraria Pragensia : Studies in Literature and Culture, 26 (52). pp. 58-76.

Purcell, Stephen (2016) Editing for performance or documenting performance?: exploring the relationship between early modern text and clowning. Shakespeare Bulletin , 34 (1). pp. 5-27.

2015

Purcell, Stephen (2015) Shakespeare, spectatorship, and the “olympic spirit”. In: Prescott, Paul and Sullivan, Erin, (eds.) Shakespeare on the Global Stage. Arden Shakespeare . London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472520340

Purcell, Stephen (2015) The international language of physical theatre at the 2012 globe to globe festival. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 151 . pp. 101-115.

2014

Purcell, Stephen (2014) The impact of new forms of public performance. In: Carson, Christie and Kirwan, Peter, (eds.) Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-215. ISBN 9781107064362

2013

Purcell, Stephen (2013) “What country, Friends, is this?” : cultural identity and the World Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare Survey, Volume 66 . pp. 155-165.

Purcell, Stephen (2013) Shakespeare in practice : the audience. London : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. (In Press)

2012

Purcell, Stephen (2012) Marcello Magni. In: Russell Brown, John and Ewert, Kevin, (eds.) The Routledge companion to actors' Shakespeare. London : Routledge, pp. 159-174. ISBN 9780415483025

Purcell, Stephen (2012) Webster : the white devil. Shakespeare handbooks- Shakespeare's contemporaries . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230279766

2011

Purcell, Stephen (2011) Shakespeare on television. In: Thornton Burnett, Mark and Streete , Adrian and Wray, Ramona, (eds.) The Edinburgh companion to Shakespeare and the arts. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748635238

2009

Purcell, Stephen (2009) Popular Shakespeare : simulation and subversion on the modern stage. Palgrave Shakespeare studies. . Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230577039