Read-alikes and related books

Books like Coriolanus

What to read after Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: 24 titles sharing themes of Screenplays, Shakespeare, Drama, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Coriolanus

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Coriolanus — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

Themes: Screenplays • Shakespeare • Drama

Anthony Munday and Civic Culture Theatre, History, and Power in Early Modern London : 1580-1633

Tracey Hill

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

John Bull’s Other Island

Bernard Shaw

Themes: Screenplays • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays

John Wilders

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Alchemist

Ben Jonson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare-Lexicon A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet; Volume 2

Alexander Schmidt

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Abigail’s Party & Goose-Pimples

Mike Leigh

Themes: Screenplays • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Micro-Cosmographie

John Earle

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#10

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Will Tosh

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#11

Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Screenplays • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#12

Stages of Power Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

Eric S. Mallin

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#13

The Plays and Poems of Cyril, Tourneur

John Churton Collins

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#14

Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices — Dylan Thomas

Dylan. Thomas

Themes: Screenplays • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#15

The English History Play In The Age Of Shakespeare

Irving Ribner

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#16

Revived with Care John Fletcher’s Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020

Peter Malin

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#17

Anagrams of Desire Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film, and Television

Charlotte Crofts

Themes: Screenplays • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#18

Shakespeare-lexicon A Complete Dictionary Of All The English Words, Phrases And Constructions In The Works Of The Poet; Volume 1

Alexander Schmidt

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#19

Shakespeare in the Theatre

William Poel

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#20

The Renaissance of Emotion Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Richard Meek

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#21

Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text

Alfred W. Pollard

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#22

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Natalie K. Eschenbaum

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#23

Harold Pinter’s Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter

Charles Morton

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#24

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

Emma Smith

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Coriolanus by William Shakespeare — spanning Screenplays, Shakespeare, Drama and featuring authors such as William Shakespeare, Tracey Hill, Bernard Shaw, John Wilders, and others.