1.) Review of Pawns in the New York Times January 9, 1972
Pawns :By Peter Barnes. 284 pp. Knopf. $7.95.BR28. Retrieved April 2, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 – 2006). (Document ID: 93412649).
2.) A critical study by Brian Woolland which acts as an afterward to his book-length study, Dark Attractions: The Theatre of Peter Barnes.
Woolland B. ‘A Whole New World Still to Make’: a Valedictory for Peter Barnes. New Theatre Quarterly [serial on the Internet]. (2005, Feb), [cited April 2, 2010]; 21(1): 23-27. Available from: Humanities International Complete.
3.) Two Memorial Tributes written by Alan Rickman and Charles Marowitz
Peter Barnes: the Playwright who Laughed at Death. New Theatre Quarterly [serial on the Internet]. (2004, Nov), [cited April 2, 2010]; 20(4): 299-304. Available from: Humanities International Complete.
4.)Review of The Ruling Class; May 1971
Author(s): William L. Tribby Reviewed work(s): The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes Source: Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2 (May, 1971), pp. 210-211 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3205674
5.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance entry.
Brian Woolland “Barnes, Peter” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 2003. Suffolk University. 16 April 2010 <http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library.law.suffolk.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780198601746.001.0001/acref-9780198601746-e-300?rskey=qDVSJc&result=3&q=Barnes,%20Peter>
FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BOOKS
Esslin, Martin, Encyclopedia of World Theater, Charles Scribner’s Sons, (New York, NY), 1977.
Bock, Hedwig, and Albert Wertheim, editors, Essays on Contemporary British Drama, Verlag, 1981.
Dukore, Bernard Frank, The Theatre of Peter Barnes, London: Heinemann,1981.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 13: British Dramatists since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1982.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5, 1976, Volume 56, 1989.
Berney, K.A., editor, Contemporary British Dramatists, St. James Press (London, England), 1994.
Dukore, Barnestorm: The Plays of Peter Barnes, Garland (New York City), 1995.
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Volume 14, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
Parker, Peter, editor, Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1996.
Stringer, Jenny, editor, Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1996.
Banham, Martin, editor, Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1998.
Crystal, David, editor, Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1998.
Ousby, Ian, editor, Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1998.
Riggs, Thomas, editor, Contemporary Dramatists, sixth edition, 1999.
PERIODICALS
New York Times, January 31, 1971, p. 16.
New York Magazine, September 2, 1974, p. 56.
Plays and Players, May, 1974; March, 1978, p. 14.
Times (London), October 25, 1986; June 3, 1987.
America, November 28, 1987, p. 411.
New Republic, September 21, 1992, p. 32.
New Yorker, August 10, 1992, p. 71.
National Review, February 15, 1993, p. 56.
New York, May 1, 1995, p. 71.
Variety, April 24, 1995, p. 26
Independent, July 18, 2001, Paul Taylor, “The Year They Invented Shakespeare,” p. S10.
