10 best-selling plays books like Richard III by William Shakespeare, John Jowett

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Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful…

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1. Sir Thomas More

By: William Shakespeare , Anthony Munday

3.17

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

"Sir Thomas More" is especially valuable for the light it throws on the doctrinal issues that were … read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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2. 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
  • school
  • theatre
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  • plays
  • drama
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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
  • 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

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4. The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824

By: Harvey Sachs

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“All men become brothers . . . Be embraced, ye millions!” The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of free… read more

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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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6. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Knight of the Burning Pestle

By: John Fletcher , Francis Beaumont

4.22

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. The Jew of Malta

By: Christopher Marlowe , H. Havelock Ellis

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta,in which the title character relentlessly … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. The First and Second Discourses

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Roger D. Masters , Judith R. Masters

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text inclu… read more

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  • classics
  • school
Cover of Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence

11. Plays Unpleasant

By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

12. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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14. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

15. The Malcontent

By: John Marston

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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19. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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20. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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21. Anielka

By: Bolesław Prus

3.02

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Anielka jest trzynastoletnią dziewczynką wychowaną w bogatym dworze, pod opieką guwernantki. Jej be… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
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12 Top fiction books like Richard III by William Shakespeare, John Jowett

Transform Your Habits

Sir Thomas More

William Shakespeare , Anthony Munday

3.17

Transform Your Habits

The Roaring Girl

Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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18 best-selling fiction books like The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe, H. Havelock Ellis

Transform Your Habits

Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Arden of Faversham

Anonymous , Unknown , Martin White , Tom Lockwood

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

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