Read-alikes and related books

Books like King Lear

Readers who finished King Lear by William Shakespeare and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Shakespeare and Drama.

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Top related books to King Lear

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

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

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

Alfred W. Pollard

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

A Glossary Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc. Which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors

Robert Nares

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Theresa Sullivan

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen

Billy Mernit

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

Allie Esiri

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The Philosopher’s English King Shakespeare’s Henriad as Political Philosophy

Leon Harold Craig

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1 Shakespeare Set Free — Peggy O’Brien

Peggy O'Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Window to Criticism Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Modern Poetics

Murray Krieger

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#10

Romeo and Juliet

Edward Rocklin

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#11

The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare The Undiscovered Diary of His Strange Eventful Life and Loves

Terry Tamminen

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#12

Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth — Peggy O’Brien

Peggy O'Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#13

Children of the Catastrophe A Novel

Sarah Shoemaker

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#14

Twelfth Night A User’s Guide

Michael Pennington

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#15

Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage

Anthony Ellis

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#16

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare King Richard Ii. King Henry Iv, Parts I and II

Richard Farmer

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#17

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction

Stanley Wells

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#18

Shakespeare After All

Marjorie Garber

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#19

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II

Cedric J. Robinson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#20

Shakespeare and the Law A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions

Bradin Cormack

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#21

The End of the Ancient Republic Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Jan H. Blits

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#22

A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare Being the Text of the First (1794) Edition Revised by the Author and Never Previously Published

Walter Whiter

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#23

Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer

Ceri Sullivan

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#24

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama — the same threads that run through King Lear by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Alfred W. Pollard, Robert Nares, Theresa Sullivan, and others.