Nevill Coghill is the author of The vision of Piers Plowman, newly rendered into modern English by H.W. Wells, with an introd, The Masque of Hope, Presented for the Entertainment of H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth on the Occasion of Her Visit to University College, 25th May 1948, by Oxford University Dramatic Society (1948), The Nun's Priest's Tale (1965), Murder in the cathedral (1965), Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1922).