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If you loved Studying Plays by Mick Wallis, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Theater, Drama, History & Criticism, and Performing Arts.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Theatre in Scotland A Field of Dreams — Joyce McMillan

Theatre in Scotland A Field of Dreams

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Shakespeare in Performance Castings and Metamorphoses — Ralph Berry

Shakespeare in Performance Castings and Metamorphoses

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

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: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage — Andrés Pérez-Simón

Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

Andrés Pérez-Simón

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Place of the Stage License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England — Steven Mullaney

The Place of the Stage License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England

Steven Mullaney

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer — Jonathan Cole

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Shakespeare in a Divided America — James Shapiro

Shakespeare in a Divided America

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory — Sujata Iyengar

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Actor in Costume — Aoife Monks

The Actor in Costume

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

All Fools — George Chapman

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts ‘Cut Him Out in Little Stars’ — Julia Reinhard Lupton

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts ‘Cut Him Out in Little Stars&#8217

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Hollow Crown Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall — Eliot A. Cohen

The Hollow Crown Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-political Movement of Theatre and Performance An Intercultural Perspective — Min Tian

The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-political Movement of Theatre and Performance An Intercultural Perspective

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Love’s Victory — Lady Mary Wroth

Love’s Victory

Lady Mary Wroth

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays — John Wilders

The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’ The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India — Rakesh H. Solomon

Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’ The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India

Rakesh H. Solomon

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

The Untold Stories of Broadway Tales from the World’s Most Famous Theaters — Jennifer Ashley Tepper

The Untold Stories of Broadway Tales from the World’s Most Famous Theaters

Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Shakespeare A Life — Park Honan

Shakespeare A Life

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 Print, Text, and Performance in Europe — Julie Stone Peters

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 Print, Text, and Performance in Europe

Julie Stone Peters

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Some Other Note The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy — Ross W. Duffin

Some Other Note The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Early Cambridge Theatres College, University and Town Stages, 1464-1720 — Alan H. Nelson

Early Cambridge Theatres College, University and Town Stages, 1464-1720

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

King Lear Second Edition — Alexander Leggatt

King Lear Second Edition

Alexander Leggatt

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Lockdown Shakespeare New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation — Gemma Kate Allred

Lockdown Shakespeare New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation

Gemma Kate Allred

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

Cabaret — William Grange

Themes: Theater • Drama • History & Criticism

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Studying Plays by Mick Wallis. Connected by Theater, Drama, History & Criticism. Authors featured include Joyce McMillan, Ralph Berry, Peter Malin, Andrés Pérez-Simón, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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