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.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said

Harriet Walter

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

The Sisters Rosensweig

Wendy Wasserstein

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Cultural Value in Twenty-First-century England The Case of Shakespeare

Kate McLuskie

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Colonial Women Race and Culture in Stuart Drama

Heidi Hutner

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Shakespeare’s Tutor The Influence of Thomas Kyd

Darren Freebury-Jones

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Shakespeare After All

Marjorie Garber

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War

Emma Smith

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

Radical Shakespeare Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career

Christopher Fitter

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#10

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

Dan Brayton

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#11

Shakespeare Survey

Stanley Wells

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#12

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

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#13

Critical Essays On The Plays Of Shakespeare (1889)

William Watkiss Lloyd

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#14

Re-imagining Shakespeare in Contemporary Japan A Selection of Japanese Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare

Tetsuhito Motoyama

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#15

The Life of William Shakespeare

Nicholas Rowe

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#16

Twelfth Night AS-A Level Oxford Literature Companions

Peter Buckroyd

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#17

Stay at Home, Mom Even If You’re Single!

ANNIE JEAN. BREWER

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#18

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#19

Macbeth The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version

John McDonald

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#20

Much Ado A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company

Michael Lenehan

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#21

In the Land of Men A Memoir

Adrienne Miller

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#22

The Folger Guide to Teaching Macbeth — Peggy O’Brien

Peggy O'Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#23

Romeo and Juliet for Kids

Lois Burdett

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama

#24

The Astonishing Life of August March A Novel

Aaron Jackson

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, Harriet Walter, Wendy Wasserstein, Kate McLuskie, and others.