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Readers who finished Hamlet by William Shakespeare and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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

The Comedy of Errors — William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder — T. G. Bishop

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder

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

Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War — Emma Smith

Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War

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

Shakespeare Survey — Kenneth Muir

Shakespeare Survey

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

Romeo and Juliet — Edward Rocklin

Romeo and Juliet

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

As You Like it A Guide — Alistair McCallum

As You Like it A Guide

Alistair McCallum

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

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature — Natalie K. Eschenbaum

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Natalie K. Eschenbaum

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

Shakespeare’s Kings — John Julius Norwich

Shakespeare’s Kings

John Julius Norwich

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

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night — R P Draper

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

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

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time The Art of Stage Playing — John H. Astington

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time The Art of Stage Playing

John H. Astington

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 1 — Alexander Schmidt

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

An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear — Elizabeth Montagu

An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear

Elizabeth Montagu

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

Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre The Early Modern Body-Mind — Laurie Johnson

Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre The Early Modern Body-Mind

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

Twelfth Night AS-A Level Oxford Literature Companions — Peter Buckroyd

Twelfth Night AS-A Level Oxford Literature Companions

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

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

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

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

The Renaissance of Emotion Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries — Richard Meek

The Renaissance of Emotion Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland — Christopher Highley

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

Christopher Highley

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

Celebrating Shakespeare Commemoration and Cultural Memory — Clara Calvo

Celebrating Shakespeare Commemoration and Cultural Memory

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — the same threads that run through Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, T. G. Bishop, Emma Smith, Kenneth Muir, and others.

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