18 books like A Midsummer Night's Dream

What to read after A Midsummer Night's Dream — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Iliad Gillian Cross · 2001 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A strikingly illustrated retelling of Homer’s classic from the team who brought us The Odyssey—Carnegie Medalist Gillian Cross and illustrator Neil Packer. After nine years of war between the Greeks and Trojans, tensions are heating up among men of the same faction as well as those on opposing sides. Two proud and powerful Greeks, King Agamemnon and legendary warrior Achilles, quarrel over a… Shares: Community pick

As You Like It William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.8 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living. Shares: Stage history, Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Textual Criticism

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1608 · ★ 3.9 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Demanding King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and Lear, all his daughters and more, die. ([source][1]) [1]:… Shares: Stage history, Textual Criticism, Poetry, Drama

Coriolanus William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.7 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding A proud Roman general conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city. Shares: Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Drama

Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 4.1 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Demanding Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into… Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Textual Criticism, Drama

The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare · 1631 · ★ 3.7 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Demanding This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for the nobility. CliffsComplete combines the full original text of The Taming of the Shrew with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary… Shares: Stage history, Juvenile drama, Drama

Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1797 · 968p · ≈ 32h · Demanding Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Poetry, Drama Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Poetry, Drama

Twelfth Night, or What You Will William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 4.0 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities. Shares: Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Drama

Supplices Euripides · 1743 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Centering on the right of proper burial for those fallen in battle, Suppliant Women reflects on war and on the rule of law. In Electra Euripides gives us his version of the famous legend of the murder of Clytaemestra by her children in revenge for her killing their father, a portrayal interestingly different from that in Sophocles' Electra. Narrating sudden reversals in the hero's fortunes,… Shares: Theseus, Drama

Richard III William Shakespeare · 1597 · ★ 3.9 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Demanding "containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death" (Subtitle of the 1597 edition.) Shares: Stage history, Textual Criticism, Drama

Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603 · ★ 4.0 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Demanding In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of… Shares: Stage history, Graphic Novels, Drama

Ariel Sylvia Plath · 1965 · ★ 4.2 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death." Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia… Shares: Textual Criticism, Poetry

Plays (43) William Shakespeare · 1663 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Demanding Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Drama Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Drama

Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1794 · 1376p · ≈ 45h · Demanding Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Drama Shares: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Drama

Romeo and Juliet, 1750 William Shakespeare · 1750 · ★ 3.6 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Shares: Juvenile drama, Graphic Novels, Drama

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Jack Thorne · 2001 · ★ 3.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on July 30, 2016. It was always… Shares: Juvenile drama, Drama, Fantasy

The egoist George Meredith · 1879 · 523p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Presents the text of George Meredith's classic satirical novel along with critical essays by Robert Mayo, Virginia Woolf, and others, textual notes, and background essays by the author. Shares: Courtship, Drama

Othello William Shakespeare · 1622 · ★ 3.9 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and suspicion presented scene by scene in comic book format. Shares: Stage history, Textual Criticism, Drama

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