8 must-read read for school books like Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

Cover of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w…

"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

If you liked the read for school plot in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library , 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
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy by Margaret Cavendish

2. The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy

By: Margaret Cavendish

3.56

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), began her literary career in 1653, with… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • comedy
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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • 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 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

4. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

Cover of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

5. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night book and William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • comedy
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

6. 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
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

7. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
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  • plays
Cover of The Rover by Aphra Behn, Simon Trussler

8. The Rover

By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more

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  • school
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  • plays
Cover of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

9. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • school
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10. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
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  • fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of Epicoene by Ben Jonson

11. Epicoene

By: Ben Jonson

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school

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. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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14. 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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Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

15. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • school
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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

16. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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17. The Rape of the Lock

By: Alexander Pope

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more

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Cover of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

18. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

19. 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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20. Venus - Acting Edition

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Parks' latest and most controversial work. read more

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Cover of Paradise Lost by John Milton, John      Leonard

21. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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3.41

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

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George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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