8 Best plays books like The Island Princess by John Fletcher

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The Island Princess

By: John Fletcher

3.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays.

If you liked the plays plot in The Island Princess by John Fletcher , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cook

1. The Roaring Girl

By: Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook

3.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume i… read more

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  • classics
  • 17th century
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

2. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

Cover of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

3. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • classics
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Cover of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill

4. Troilus and Criseyde

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • read for school
"And after winter folweth grene May."

-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."

-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"

-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."

-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

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5. The Changeling

By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more

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  • classics
  • 17th century
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

Cover of Pericles by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

6. Pericles

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.85

Format: None pages,

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  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
  • drama

8. The Tragedy of Mariam

By: Elizabeth Cary

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Stephanie Hodgson-Wright's excellent edition of this important work is the most user-friendly avai… read more

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9. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative

By: Mary Prince

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more

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10. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

11. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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12. King Henry VI, Part 2

By: William Shakespeare , Christopher Marlowe , None

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the En… read more

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13. Edward II

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece. read more

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14. The Renegado

By: Philip Massinger , Michael Neill

3.66

Format: 384 pages,

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15. The Shoemaker's Holiday

By: Thomas Dekker , None

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

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16. The Spanish Tragedy

By: Thomas Kyd , None

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more

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17. The Witch of Edmonton

By: John Ford , Thomas Dekker , William Rowley

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics i… read more

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18. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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19. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

Cover of Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama) by Francis Beaumont

20. Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)

By: Francis Beaumont

3.43

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's lat… read more

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  • classics
  • 17th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Bellario. Sir, you did take me up When I was nothing; and only yet am something By being yours. You trusted me unknown; And that which you were apt to conster A simple innocence in me, perhaps Might …"

-Francis Beaumont, Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)

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21. The Island Princess

By: John Fletcher

3.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays. read more

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  • classics
  • 17th century
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

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3.41

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3.68

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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3.76

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3.27

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3.47

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William Congreve

3.31

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