Read-alikes and related books

Books like Hamlet

24 titles for readers of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, selected for shared themes: Shakespeare and Drama.

Shakespeare Drama

Top related books to Hamlet

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

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

Ken Ludwig

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Tiffany Stern

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

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

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Helen Hackett

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Elizabeth Winkler

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen

Billy Mernit

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Bargains with Fate Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays

Bernard J. Paris

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#10

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children

E. Nesbit

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#11

Effective Management Control Theory and Practice

Eric Flamholtz

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#12

Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty

John Vyvyan

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#13

Tangled Shakespeare Richard III

Mkay Bb Watson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#14

Shakespeare and Religion Essays of Forty Years

G. Wilson Knight

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#15

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

John Wilders

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#16

Shakespeare’s World: The Tragedies A Historical Exploration of Literature

Douglas J. King

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#17

The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England

J. W. Sider

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#18

Othello

Peter Davison

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#19

Shakespeare’s Stories for Young Readers

E. Nesbit

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#20

Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

Ann Thompson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#21

Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth — Peggy O’Brien

Peggy O'Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#22

Suffocating Mothers Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest

Janet Adelman

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#23

Shakespeare’s Thought Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays

David Lowenthal

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#24

Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English A Modern Translation and the Original Version

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Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama — the same threads that run through Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Ken Ludwig, Tiffany Stern, Alexander Schmidt, and others.