Reynolds, George Fullmer, The Staging of Elizabethan Plays at the Red Bull Theater, 1605-1625, Modern Language Association of America, 1940, reprint Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, pp. 115-21.

Reynolds analyzes how the play was staged in the Elizabethan Age, emphasizing the use of the stage doors, which are significant in every scene.

Schutzman, Julie R., “Alice Arden's Freedom and the Suspended Moment of Arden of Faversham,” in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 289-314.

Schutzman argues that although Alice Arden ends up suffering the death penalty, she was able to exercise her will by subverting and manipulating the patriarchal social order that curtailed women's freedom to act as autonomous agents.

Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr., “'Arden Lay Murdered in that Plot of Ground': Surveying, Land and Arden of Faversham,” in ELH, Vol. 61, No. 2, Summer 1994, pp. 231-52.

Sullivan examines the concept of land in the play. In...