Read-alikes and related books

Books like Pygmalion

What to read after Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw: 24 titles sharing themes of Screenplays, Folklore & Mythology, Drama, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Pygmalion

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Pygmalion.

John Bull’s Other Island — Bernard Shaw

John Bull’s Other Island

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

Anagrams of Desire Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film, and Television — Charlotte Crofts

Anagrams of Desire Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film, and Television

Charlotte Crofts

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

Coriolanus — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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

The Lady in the Van: The Screenplay — Alan Bennett

The Lady in the Van: The Screenplay

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

Abigail’s Party & Goose-Pimples — Mike Leigh

Abigail’s Party & Goose-Pimples

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

Alan Partridge Alpha Papa: Script and Scrapped — Steve Coogan

Alan Partridge Alpha Papa: Script and Scrapped

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

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Pieces of Vincent — David Watson

Pieces of Vincent

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

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies — Thomas Heywood

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies

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

Arcadia A Play — Tom Stoppard

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

London Kills Me — Hanif Kureishi

London Kills Me

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

Measure for Measure — William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

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

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads — Roy Williams

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads

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

The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays — John Millington Synge

The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays

John Millington Synge

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

Danny the Champion of the World Plays for Children — Roald Dahl

Danny the Champion of the World Plays for Children

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

The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling — George Bernard Shaw

Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling

George Bernard Shaw

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

Molly Sweeney — Brian Friel

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

Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices — Dylan Thomas

Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices — Dylan Thomas

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

Antigone A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy — Hollie McNish

Antigone A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy

Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Walworth Farce The New Electric Ballroom — Enda Walsh

The Walworth Farce The New Electric Ballroom

Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

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

UR — Sulayman Al Bassam

Sulayman Al Bassam

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

Art, Culture and Enterprise (Routledge Revivals) The Politics of Art and the Cultural Industries — Justin Lewis

Art, Culture and Enterprise (Routledge Revivals) The Politics of Art and the Cultural Industries

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Screenplays, Folklore & Mythology, Drama — the same threads that run through Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. Among the authors featured: Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Crofts, William Shakespeare, Alan Bennett, and others.

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