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24 books recommended for fans of King Lear by Rebecca Warren, tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with King Lear — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Henry VIII — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time — Emma Phipson

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time

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

Beginning Shakespeare — Lisa Hopkins

Beginning Shakespeare

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

The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio — Emma Smith

The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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

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

Love’s Labor’s Lost — William Shakespeare

Love’s Labor’s Lost

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare Survey — Kenneth Muir

Shakespeare Survey

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

Shakespeare’s Comedies: All That Matters — Mike Scott

Shakespeare’s Comedies: All That Matters

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

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England — Jonathan Baldo

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

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

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England — Stephen Orgel

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England

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

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

Stages of Power Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

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

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration — Dan Brayton

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

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

Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

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 2 — Alexander Schmidt

Shakespeare-Lexicon A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet; Volume 2

Alexander Schmidt

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

Romeo and Juliet — Edward Rocklin

Romeo and Juliet

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 King Lear by Rebecca Warren. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Stevie Davies, Nandini Das, Will Tosh, and others.

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