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Books like Hamlet

Explore 24 books like Hamlet by William Shakespeare — a handpicked selection united by Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Classics.

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

Twelfth Night Or, What You Will — William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night Or, What You Will

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew — Stevie Davies

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

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

The Audience — Peter Morgan

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

Macbeth The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version — John McDonald

Macbeth The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version

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

Charles Dickens: Adapted by Neil Bartlett A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: Adapted by Neil Bartlett A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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

Romeo and Juliet the Graphic Novel: Plain Text — Joe Sutliff Sanders

Romeo and Juliet the Graphic Novel: Plain Text

Joe Sutliff Sanders

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

What Every Woman Knows — J. M. Barrie

What Every Woman Knows — J. M. Barrie

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

Alice — Lewis Carroll

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

The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

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

The Philanderer — George Bernard Shaw

The Philanderer

George Bernard Shaw

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

The Christmas Books A Christmas Carol, the Chimes, the Cricket On the Hearth — Charles Dickens

The Christmas Books A Christmas Carol, the Chimes, the Cricket On the Hearth

Charles Dickens

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

Getting Married — Bernard Shaw

Getting Married

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

Savin’ Up for Saturday Night The Honky Tonk Musical — Jeff Goode

Savin’ Up for Saturday Night The Honky Tonk Musical

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

Murder on the Nile — Agatha Christie

Murder on the Nile

Agatha Christie

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

I, Claudius and Claudius the God — Robert Graves

I, Claudius and Claudius the God

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

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer A Play — Don Nigro

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer A Play

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

Three Comedies — Ben Jonson

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

The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

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

Murder in the Cathedral — Thomas Stearns Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral

Thomas Stearns Eliot

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

When You Are Old Early Poems and Fairy Tales — William Butler Yeats

When You Are Old Early Poems and Fairy Tales

William Butler Yeats

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

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: Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Haroun and the Sea of Stories — Salman Rushdie

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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

The O’Brien A Ballysea Mystery — Frances Powell

The O’Brien A Ballysea Mystery

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European — the same threads that run through Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Stevie Davies, Oscar Wilde, Peter Morgan, and others.

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