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24 books recommended for fans of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Macbeth.

All’s Well That Ends Well — William Shakespeare

All’s Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays — Catherine M. S. Alexander

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays

Catherine M. S. Alexander

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

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

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

King Lear — John Russell Brown

John Russell Brown

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

King Lear Second Edition — Alexander Leggatt

King Lear Second Edition

Alexander Leggatt

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

Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night — R P Draper

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

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

William Shakespeare, The Tempest — Sandra Clark

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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

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

Fortunes of Falstaff — John Dover Wilson

Fortunes of Falstaff

John Dover Wilson

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

White Hart Red Lion The England of Shakespeare’s Histories — Nick Asbury

White Hart Red Lion The England of Shakespeare’s Histories

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

Shakespeare in the Theatre — William Poel

Shakespeare in the Theatre

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

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now — Hillary Eklund

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now

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’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 Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy — Adam Zucker

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy

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

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