Here is a list of Shakespeare's plays, below it is a growing list of suggested plays with a Shakespeare connection or theme. Watch this space as we add more. These are examples and suggestions only and should not prevent you from using other Shakespeare-themed plays.
Shakespeare plays
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part I
Henry IV, part II
Henry V
Henry VI, part I
Henry VI, part II
Henry VI, part III
Richard III
Henry VIII
Below are some of the most recent RSC commissioned and produced new plays which have a strong Shakespeare link:
A Tender Thing by Ben Power
The Cordelia Dream by Marina Carr
Days of Significance by Roy Williams
The Indian Boy by Rona Munro
Dunsinane by David Greig
The Gods Weep by Dennis Kelly
And some from the back catalogue:
The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan
Two Shakespearian Actors by Richard Nelson
Bingo by Edward Bond
Link to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for RSC archive for more plays:
http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqCmd=index.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqApp=Archive
Edited Shakespeares:
All's Well that Ends Well edited by Katie Douglas
Much Ado About Nothing edited by Ben Power
The Tempest edited by Ben Power
Available next year:
The Comedy of Errors edited by Gary Owen
Hamlet edited by Bijan Sheibani and Tarell Alvin McCraney
Plays inspired by Shakespeare available from Samuel French Ltd
Full Length
All's Well That Ends As You Like It – Michael Green (Coarse Acting)
A Bad Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream) – Simon Brett
Coriolanus – Bertolt Brecht, trans. Ralph Manheim
Dogg's Hamlet / Cahoot's Macbeth – Tom Stoppard* (can be presented as individual one acts)
Elsie and Norm's Macbeth – John Christopher Wood
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth – David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr
Henry the 10th Part 7 – Michael Green (Coarse Acting)
Humble Boy (Hamlet) – Charlotte Jones
Lord and Ladies (A Midsummer Night's Dream) – Terry Pratchett/Irena Brown
Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Richard III elements) – Bertolt Brecht, 3 translations available: Ralph Manheim, George Tabori and Ranjit Bolt
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard*
The Scottish Play – Graham Holliday
The Secret Love Life of Ophelia – Steven Berkoff
Shakespeare in Hollywood - Ken Ludwig
The Dresser (King Lear) - Ronald Harwood
After Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) - Sharman Macdonald
Pocket Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Elly Brewer & Sandy Toksvig
Will Shakespeare - Clemence Dane
Spring 1600 - Emlyn Williams (earlier version of Shakespeare in Love)
One Acts
Don't Blame it on the Boots – NJ Warburton
Fifteen Minute Hamlet – Tom Stoppard*
Merry Regiment of Women – Rae Shirley
* All Tom Stoppard plays are subject to restrictions in the London area.
Full details available on www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk
Shakespeare-themed plays
Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical) - Galt MacDermott etc.- Musicscope manuscript
Nightshriek - Trisha Ward (musical Macbeth) – Warner Chappell on hire
Kiss Me Kate - Cole Porter (musical The Taming of the Shrew) – Musicscope on hire
Return To The Forbidden Planet - Bob Carlton (musical The Tempest) – Weinbergers on hire
Tempest/Une Tempete by Aime Cesaire, trans by Philip Crispin – Oberon
Shakespeare Revue – various authors – Nick Hern Books
West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein etc (musical Romeo amd Juliet) – Weinbergers on hire
Bingo by Edward Bond (last days of Shakespeare) - Methuen
Shakespeare's R & J (Romeo and Juliet) - Joe Calarco – Dramatist Play Service USA
Lear - Edward Bond – Methuen
Merry Wives of Windsor (musical) - Gregory Doran, Ranjit Bolt etc (RSC) – Oberon
Wyrd Sisters (The) - Terry Pratchett, adapt Stephen Briggs (Macbeth) – Transworld – amateur rights handled by Stephen Briggs
Your Own Thing - H Hester etc. (musical Twelfth Night) – Musicscope on hire
Cressida - Nicholas Wright – Nick Hern
Boys From Syracuse - Rodgers & Hart (musical The Comedy of Errors) – Weinbergers on hire
The Park - Botho Strauss (A Midsummer Night's Dream) – Oberon
Shakespeare Country - Peter Whelan – Weinbergers
Theatre Of Blood - Lee Simpson & Phelim McDermott based on the film – Oberon
The Merchant - Arnold Wesker – Methuen
Seven Lears - Howard Barker – Oberon
Big Life - Paul Sirett etc (musical Love's Labour's Lost) – Oberon
The Public - Lorca (Romeo and Juliet) – Methuen
A Place Calling Itself Rome - John Osborne (Coriolanus) – Faber
Hamletmachine - Heiner Muller – Performing Arts Journal USA
Lear's Daughters - Elaine Feinstein etc. – various volumes – Womens Theatre Group
Desdemona-Play About A Handkerchief - Paula Vogel – Dramatist Play Service, USA
This Island's Mine - Philip Osment (The Tempest) – Methuen & Routledge
We Happy Few - Imogen Stubbs – Nick Hern Books
Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - Reduced Shakespeare Co. – Applause Books, USA – Weinbergers
Marowitz (Charles) Shakespeare Volume (The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure) – Calder & Boyars
The Africa Company Presents Richard III - Carlyle Brown – Dramatists Play Service, USA