Recs if you like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...

A list for books based on the works of other writers (or: authors copying each other’s homework 🙂‍↕️). Suggestions welcome!

The bard's stories, but different.

A list of notable plays written throughout history. Not only do these make for great stage productions, they're also fantastic reads.

Absurdist and existentialist fiction confronts the central tension of human life: our relentless search for meaning in a universe that offers none. These works explore freedom, alienation, responsibility, and the burden of choice. Characters often stand alone against indifferent systems, silent gods, or their own fractured consciousness. You can suggest works in comments section below

„Nothing is funnier than unhappiness … it‘s the most comical thing in the world.“

A selection of well-known plays of the Theatre of the Absurd. Here human existence lacks meaning and purpose and we keep running in circles.

Books you didn't realize were written by Jewish authors. Bonus points if you studied them in school and it just... never came up.

I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.

Shakespeare ain't the only playwright worth reading

All these books are taken from various courses I've taken as English Literature undergrad! Contains both well known classics and ones you probably have never heard of. (work in progress)

I've been addicted to watching Smosh all summer, here is a list of the casts and crew's favorite books from the Shayne Guesses video ;p I haven't read like... any of these.

Plays that everyone should read in their lifetimes.

my (curated & picky) list of literary retellings of classic novels! all ask you to reconsider the original text.

an eclectic collection of books related to 'hamlet': from other classics to retellings to academic perspectives

themes i prioritized: kingship and anxieties of ruling, familial struggles (particularly father/son), existential questions, tragedy

Shakespeare’s comedies, comedies about Shakespeare, and retellings.

Plays we've enjoyed reading (and watching come to life in our mind's eye, hopefully even performed)