Read-alikes and related books

Books like Twelfth Night

If you loved Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Shakespeare and Drama.

Shakespeare Drama

Top related books to Twelfth Night

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Twelfth Night.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index: 3

William Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Hamlet

Paul Illidge

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance

Milla Cozart Riggio

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

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

Peggy O'Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Lockdown Shakespeare New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation

Gemma Kate Allred

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The Birds of Yorkshire Being a Historical Account of the Avi-fauna of the County: 1; Volume 1

Thomas Hudson Nelson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Tiffany Stern

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

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

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Three Plays Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker

Thornton Wilder

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#10

Much Ado A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company

Michael Lenehan

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#11

Shakespeare: The Late Plays

Kate Aughterson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#12

Shakespeare’s Philosophy Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

Colin McGinn

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#13

Shakespeare’s King Henry Iv. Part 1, With Explanatory and Illustr. Notes, Adapted for Scholastic Or Private Study by J. Hunter

Anonymous

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#14

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#15

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Natalie K. Eschenbaum

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#16

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#17

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

Richard Farmer

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#18

Unreading Shakespeare

David P. Gontar

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#19

Shakespeare’s Histories An Anthology of Modern Criticism

William A. Armstrong

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#20

Shakespeare’s Body Language Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage

Miranda Fay Thomas

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#21

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Kids 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes

Brendan P. Kelso

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#22

Children of the Catastrophe A Novel

Sarah Shoemaker

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#23

Everything Shakespeare

Peter Rubie

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#24

New Boy Othello Retold

Tracy Chevalier

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, Drama — the same threads that run through Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Paul Illidge, Milla Cozart Riggio, Peggy O'Brien, and others.