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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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All’s Well that Ends Well

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

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

Romeo and Juliet the Graphic Novel: Plain Text

Joe Sutliff Sanders

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

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: Famous Loving Words (Tiny Book) — Insight Editions

William Shakespeare: Famous Loving Words (Tiny Book)

Insight Editions

Themes: Shakespeare • 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

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

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

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

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

The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare Notes — Martin J. Walker

The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare Notes

Martin J. Walker

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

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature — Camilla Caporicci

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

Camilla Caporicci

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

Micro-Cosmographie — John Earle

Micro-Cosmographie

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

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

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

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder

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

As You Like it A Guide — Alistair McCallum

As You Like it A Guide

Alistair McCallum

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

The English History Play In The Age Of Shakespeare — Irving Ribner

The English History Play In The Age Of Shakespeare

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

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama — Helen Hackett

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

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

Shakespeare Survey — Kenneth Muir

Shakespeare Survey

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

Stages of Power Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592 — Eric S. Mallin

Stages of Power Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

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

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