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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.

Henry VI, Part 1 — William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Revenge Or The Novice Of San Martino A Tragedy (1818) — Brook Bridges Parlby

Revenge Or The Novice Of San Martino A Tragedy (1818)

Brook Bridges Parlby

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

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

Alchemist — Ben Jonson

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

Shakespeare-lexicon A Complete Dictionary Of All The English Words, Phrases And Constructions In The Works Of The Poet; Volume 1 — Alexander Schmidt

Shakespeare-lexicon A Complete Dictionary Of All The English Words, Phrases And Constructions In The Works Of The Poet; Volume 1

Alexander Schmidt

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

Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

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 Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time — Emma Phipson

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time

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

Shakespeare’s Style — Maurice Charney

Shakespeare’s Style

Maurice Charney

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

Micro-Cosmographie — John Earle

Micro-Cosmographie

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

Shakespeare’s Kings — John Julius Norwich

Shakespeare’s Kings

John Julius Norwich

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 in the Theatre — William Poel

Shakespeare in the Theatre

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

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

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

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — the same threads that run through Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Daniel Henry Lambert, John Churton Collins, Tracey Hill, and others.

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