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What to read after King John by William Shakespeare: 24 titles sharing themes of Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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

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Macbeth the Graphic Novel: Plain Text

Joe Sutliff Sanders

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

Macbeth The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version — John McDonald

Macbeth The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version

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

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew — Stevie Davies

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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

William Shakespeare: Famous Loving Words (Tiny Book) — Insight Editions

William Shakespeare: Famous Loving Words (Tiny Book)

Insight Editions

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

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night — R P Draper

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

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

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare — Jonathan Bate

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

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

Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare — Daisy Murray

Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare

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

The Spanish Tragedie — Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedie

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

Cartae Shakespeareanae Shakespeare Documents: a Chronological Catalogue of Extant Evidence Relating to the Life and Works of William Shakespeare — Daniel Henry Lambert

Cartae Shakespeareanae Shakespeare Documents: a Chronological Catalogue of Extant Evidence Relating to the Life and Works of William Shakespeare

Daniel Henry Lambert

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

Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text — Alfred W. Pollard

Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text

Alfred W. Pollard

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

The Plays and Poems of Cyril, Tourneur — John Churton Collins

The Plays and Poems of Cyril, Tourneur

John Churton Collins

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

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide — Emma Smith

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

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

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot A Play — Stephen Adly Guirgis

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot A Play

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration — Dan Brayton

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

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

Colonial Women Race and Culture in Stuart Drama — Heidi Hutner

Colonial Women Race and Culture in Stuart Drama

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

Shakespeare in the Theatre — William Poel

Shakespeare in the Theatre

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

William Shakespeare, The Tempest — Sandra Clark

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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

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