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Books like Hamlet

24 titles for readers of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, selected for shared themes: Literary Criticism & Collections, Shakespeare, Drama, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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As You Like it A Guide — Alistair McCallum

As You Like it A Guide

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Themes: Literary Criticism & Collections • Shakespeare • Drama

Measure for Measure Oxford School Shakespeare — William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure Oxford School Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Criticism & Collections • Shakespeare • Drama

The Long and the Short and the Tall, Willis Hall Notes — Graeme Lloyd

The Long and the Short and the Tall, Willis Hall Notes

Themes: Literary Criticism & Collections • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Chronicles of Fashion From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, Etc — T. G. Bishop

Chronicles of Fashion From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, Etc

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare — Peter Holland

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

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

Harold Pinter’s Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter — Charles Morton

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

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

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare — Will Tosh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

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

Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

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

Renaissance Drama on the Edge — Lisa Hopkins

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

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

Shakespeare’s Tutor The Influence of Thomas Kyd — Darren Freebury-Jones

Shakespeare’s Tutor The Influence of Thomas Kyd

Darren Freebury-Jones

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

Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics — Abdulla Al-Dabbagh

Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics

Abdulla Al-Dabbagh

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

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural — Nandini Das

Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare’s Style — Maurice Charney

Shakespeare’s Style

Maurice Charney

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

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance — Sonia Massai

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance

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

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide — Emma Smith

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

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

Shakespeare Survey — Kenneth Muir

Shakespeare Survey

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

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary — Philip C. Kolin

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

Philip C. Kolin

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

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton — Judith H. Anderson

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

Judith H. Anderson

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

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics The Morality of Love and Money — Frederick Turner

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics The Morality of Love and Money

Frederick Turner

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

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts — Jonathan Goldberg

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts

Jonathan Goldberg

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

Hamlet in Purgatory — Stephen Greenblatt

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

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

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama — Helen Hackett

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary Criticism & Collections, Shakespeare, Drama — the same threads that run through Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: Alistair McCallum, William Shakespeare, Graeme Lloyd, T. G. Bishop, and others.

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