Read-alikes and related books

Books like Electra

24 books recommended for fans of Electra by Sophocles, tied together by themes of Ancient & Classical, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

Top related books to Electra

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Electra.

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Medea

Euripides

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Mob A Play in Four Acts

John Galsworthy

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Pygmalion.

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Antigone A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy

Hollie McNish

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

Lord George Gordon Byron

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Murder in the Cathedral

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Roméo et Juliette

William Shakespeare

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#10

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#11

The Oresteia

Aeschylus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#12

Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#13

The Theban Plays

Sophocles

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#14

Wit A Play

Margaret Edson

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#15

The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays

Ila Ahlawat

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#16

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#17

Aristophanes, an Author for the Stage

Carlo Ferdinando Russo

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#18

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

Judith H. Anderson

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#19

Sejanus His Fall

Ben Jonson

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#20

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#21

Antigone Novel Units Student Packet

Inc Staff Novel Units

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#22

Old Age Journey Into Simplicity

Helen M. Luke

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#23

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#24

Troilus and Cressida

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

If Electra by Sophocles is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Ancient & Classical, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Aristophanes, Euripides, John Galsworthy, William Shakespeare, and others.