Books

• Gay, P. (2008). The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeares comedies. New York, USA: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2002). Jane Austen and the Theatre. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Books

• Flaherty, K., Gay, P., Semler, L. (2013). Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre: Australasian Perspectives. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

Book Chapters

• Gay, P. (2014). Jane Austen's Stage. In Julia Swindells and David Francis Taylor (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre, 1737-1832, (pp. 532-547). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
• Gay, P. (2014). Understanding 'Mansfield Park' through the Rehearsals for Lovers' Vows. In Marcia McClintock Folsom, John Wiltshire (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park, (pp. 155-163). New York: Modern Language Association (MLA).
• Gay, P. (2013). A Shakespeare Brief Immersion Method for Undergraduates. In Kate Flaherty, Penny Gay, L E Semler (Eds.), Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre: Australasian Perspectives, (pp. 153-167). Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
• Gay, P. (2011). Emma and Persuasion. In E Copeland, J McMaster (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, (pp. 55-71). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Flaherty, K., Gay, P. (2010). Finding local habitation: Shakespeare's Dream at play on the stage of contemporary Australia. In Dymkowski, Christine and Carson, Christie (Eds.), Shakespeare in Stages, (pp. 229-247). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2007). Changing Shakespeare: new possibilities for the modern actress. In John Stokes and Maggie B. Gale (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, (pp. 314-326). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2005). Pastimes. In Janet Todd (Eds.), Jane Austen in Context [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of jane Austen], (pp. 337-345). Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2005). What happened to Hannah Cowley? In Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr (Eds.), New Windows on a Woman's World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris, (pp. 153-165). Dunedin (NZ): Department of English, University of Otago.
• Gay, P. (2004). Introduction [to Twelfth night]. In Elizabeth Story Donno (Eds.), Twelfth night, or, What you will, (pp. 1-52). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2004). Rozema's Fanny Price: Wild Colonial Girl. In Battaglia & Saglia (Eds.), Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland, (pp. 387-393). Napoli, Italy: Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.
• Gay, P. (2003). 'Sense and Sensibility' in a postfeminist world: sisterhood is still powerful. In Macdonald, Macdonald (Eds.), Jane Austen on Screen, (pp. 90-110). UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2003). Twelfth Night: "The babbling gossip of the air". In Dutton, Howard (Eds.), A companion to Shakespeares Work: Volume III: The Comedies, (pp. 429-446). USA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Gay, P. (2002). Portia Performs; Playing the role in the Twentieth-Century English Theater. In John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon (Eds.), The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays, (pp. 431-454). London UK, New York USA: Staempfli Publishers Ltd.
• Gay, P. (2002). Women and Shakespearean performance. In Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, (pp. 155-173). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gay, P. (2001). International Glamour or Home-grown Entertainment, 1948-64. In John Golder and Richard Madelaine (Eds.), O Brave New World: Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian Stage, (pp. 180-199). Australia: Currency Press.

Journals

• Gay, P. (2015). A Hypothetical Map of Highbury. Persuasions On-line, 36(1), 1-6.
• Gay, P. (2012). Australian Newspaper Reviewers of Shakespeare: Writing with the Head or with the Heart?'. Cahiers Elisabethains, 81(Suppl 1), 127-132. [More Information]
• Gay, P. (2010). 'A romantic musical comedy' for the fin-de-siecle: Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost. Sydney Studies in English, 36(2010), 1-21.
• Gay, P. (2010). Women and eloquence in Shakespeare and Austen. Shakespeare, 6(4), 463-477. [More Information]
• Gay, P. (2007). 'All's well, that ends well': New critical essays. The Review of English Studies, 58(235), 402-404.
• Gay, P. (2007). Twelfth Night, directed by Edward Hall for Propeller Theatre Company, Old Vic, London, 24 January 2007. Cahiers Elisabethains, 71(Spring 2007), 54-57.
• Gay, P. (2006). Review of: 'The anti-romance': Jane Austen. Australian Book Review, Oct 2006, 31-31.
• Gay, P. (2006). Review of: Jane Austen’s textual lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood. Sensibilities, 32, 149-151.
• Gay, P. (2005). Review of: A fine brush on ivory: an appreciation of Jane Austen. Sensibilities, 30, 55-58.
• Gay, P. (2005). Review of: The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre. Australasian Drama Studies, 47, 176-178.
• Gay, P. (2004). David Williamson at Thirty-One Plays. Contemporary Theatre Review, 14(3), 5-11. [More Information]
• Gay, P. (2003). Review of: Becoming Jane Austen. Sensibilities, 26, 43-46.
• Gay, P. (2002). What did Jane Austen Learn from the Theatre? Sensibilities, 25, 81-93.
• Gay, P. (2000). Review of: Shakespeare in production: Antony and Cleopatra. AUMLA, 93, 103-104.

Conferences

• Gay, P. (2006). Plays of marital discord in 18th-century comedy. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006.
• Gay, P. (2005). Transformations: Emma and Clueless, a girl's own story. Creativity and Transformation : English Association English Teachers' Conference 2005, Sydney (Aust): The English Association.
• Gay, P. (2004). Bizarre language in "Much Ado About Nothing": what editors write about it and what actors do with it. International Shakespeare Conference, 2004.
• Gay, P. (2002). Postmodernist Twelfth Nights. Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, 2002.

Textual Creative Works

• Gay, P. (2014). Macbeth: Murderer and Poet. Sydney Theatre Company and UBS Present: Macbeth, (pp. 18 - 21). Sydney, Australia: Playbill/Showbill.
• Gay, P. (2013). Juliet Speaks. Sydney Theatre Company Presents: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Rome and Juliet, (pp. 13 - 18). Sydney, Australia: Playbill/Showbill.
• Gay, P. (2013). The Impossibility of Romance. Sydney Theatre Company Presents: Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw, (pp. 17 - 21). Sydney, Australia: Playbill/Showbill.
• Gay, P. (2012). Pygmalion Meets the Twentieth Century Woman. Pygmalion, (pp. 18 - 21). Paddington, NSW, Australia: Playbill/Showbill.
• Gay, P. (2012). The Libertine: from Laclos (via Austen) to Hampton. Le Liaisons Dangereuses, (pp. 18 - 20). Paddington, NSW, Australia: Sydney Theatre Company.
• Gay, P. (2011). Shakespeare, Verdi, and the Dark Forces. Macbeth, April 2011, (pp. 1 - 7). Melbourne, Australia: Opera Australia.
• Gay, P. (2007). Games and dreams of identity. illustrated, (pp. 1 - 2). London, United Kingdom.
• Gay, P. (2003). Shakespeare's "Othello", Verdi's "Otello". Sydney, Australia: Opera Australia.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Gay, P. (2005). A life's works in writing is still just fiction. Sydney Morning Herald: Spectrum.
• Gay, P., Flaherty, K. (2004). Like It or Not? Bell Shakespeare's "As You Like It". Shakespeare Newsletter.
• Gay, P. (2004). Review of: I'll tell you what: the life of Elizabeth Inchbald. JASNA news : the newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Other

• Gay, P. (2001), The play versus the opera: Falstaff, Shakespeare, and the merry wives.
• Gay, P. (2000), No shrews in Illyria.