Literary Web Series Master List
ETA: Whew! This list has been circulating for a few years now, which is awesome. Thanks so much to everyone who has sent along series for me to add. I save every suggestion sent and try to add them in batches so as not to clog up feeds with individual updates. For that reason, I also don’t mark the status of each series, because with this many titles, that changes regularly. But please keep those suggestions coming! (And please, make sure you note what the series is retelling when sending it my way.)
Sidenote: Series are arranged by original author’s last name, then by title of original work, then by web series title, with series about multiple titles clumped at the end.
Ever since The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, literary web series have EXPLODED. What’s not to like? You get a modernized retelling of some of your favorite stories in bite-sized weekly (or semiweekly, in some cases) installments. They’re fantastic! I’ve gotten really frustrated at how many have popped up without me knowing, though. I WANT TO KNOW THEM ALL! I even asked my feed for a master list, but no one could deliver.
So I made one myself. Below is a list of every literature-related retelling web series I could find, organized by author’s last name (if applicable). If I’ve missed any, PLEASE add on to the list and keep it going. Enjoy!
The Jo March Vlog - Little Women
The March Family Letters - Little Women
From Mansfield With Love - Mansfield Park
The Cate Moreland Chronicles - Northanger Abbey
Northbound - Northanger Abbey
Persuaded To - Persuasion
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Pride and Prejudice
Welcome To Sanditon - Sanditon (unfinished Austen MS)
Dashwood Days - Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood Diaries - Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Take Barton - Sense and Sensibility
The Family Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
Mars & Elly - Sense and Sensibility
Project Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy - Peter Pan
Or So the Story Goes - Peter Pan
The Grey Tarmac Road - The Wizard of Oz
While Waiting for Godot - Waiting for Godot
The Autobiography of Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre
W.H. Academy - Wuthering Heights
A Little Princess - A Little Princess
The Misselthwaite Archives - The Secret Garden
The Wunder Institute - Alice in Wonderland
Nattie Kissable - The Kiss
School Spirit - Blithe Spirit
The Night School - The Night School series
Dear Natalie - A Christmas Carol
The New Hardy Boys - The Hardy Boys (and Nancy Drew!)
221B - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Jamie Watson (And Sherlock Holmes) - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Finger Slip - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
My Dear Watson - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
s[HER]lock - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
All For One - The Three Musketeers
The First Musketeer - The Three Musketeers
Middlemarch: The Series - Middlemarch
The Nick Carraway Chronicles - The Great Gatsby
Project Carraway - The Great Gatsby
East & West - North & South
Maggie Hale’s Corner - North & South
Away from It All - Far from the Madding Crowd
Friends of the ABC - Les Miserables
Nancy’s Vlog - Nancy Drew
Carmilla - Carmilla (novella)
Notes By Christine - The Phantom of the Opera
The Private Letters of Christine Daae - The Phantom of the Opera
School of Thrones - Game of Thrones
Green Gables Fables - Anne of Green Gables
Project AoGG - Anne of Green Gables
Project Green Gables - Anne of Green Gables
Marguerite’s Memoirs - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Masked - The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Tell-Tale Vlog - Edgar Allen Poe
The Glad Game - Pollyanna
The Adventures of Serena Berg - Cyrano de Bergerac
Always Lily - Harry Potter
Lily Evans and the Eleventh Hour - Harry Potter
Magic for Muggles - Harry Potter
The Better Strangers - As You Like It
Like, As It Is - As You Like It
Twincident - Comedy of Errors
Battle for Denmark - Hamlet
A Document of Madness - Hamlet
A Labor of Love - Love’s Labors Lost
Lovely Little Losers - Love’s Labours Lost
Bright Summer Night - A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
Love In Idleness - A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
A Midsemester’s Night’s Dream - A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
A Midsummer’s Night’s Vlog - A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
A Bit Much - Much Ado About Nothing
Blithe & Bonnie - Much Ado About Nothing
Messina High - Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About A Web Series - Much Ado About Nothing
Nothing Much To Do - Much Ado About Nothing
The Soliloquies of Santiago - Othello
Any Other Rosie - Romeo and Juliet
Any Other Vlog - Romeo and Juliet
Jules and Monty - Romeo and Juliet
Rome and Juliet - Romeo and Juliet
Call Me Katie - The Taming of the Shrew
Kate the Cursed - The Taming of the Shrew
Shrew That - The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Grade Or Whatever - The Twelfth Night
All’s Fair Play - Various Shakespeare Plays
Nothing Like the Sun - Various Shakespeare Plays
Shakes - Various Shakespeare Plays
Shakespeare Republic - Various Shakespeare Plays
Titus and Dronicus - Various Shakespeare Plays (I think?)
Frankenstein, MD - Frankenstein
The Strange Case - Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde
To Run and Hyde - Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Mina Murray’s Journal - Dracula
Charlotte’s Web Series - Charlotte’s Web
In Earnest - The Importance of Being Earnest
The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros - Cupid myth
University Ever After - Disney tales
Fairy Tale Therapy - Fairy tales
Or So the Story Goes - Fairy tales
The Blair Goddess Project - Greek mythology
Pantheon University - Greek mythology
Grimm Reflections - Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Merry Maidens - Robin Hood
Fairly Em - Fair Em (author unknown)
Edgar Allen Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party - Various
The Fantasmorgi - Various
I Didn’t Write This - Various (insp. by literary quotes)
Kissing in the Rain - Various
Or So The Story Goes - Various
ABOUT THE AUTHORS THEMSELVES
Blankverse - William Shakespeare (and others)
Writing Majors - Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde
Words from Wilde - Oscar Wilde
1. I haven’t watched all of these, so I can’t vouch for their quality.
2. Given the above, I also can’t vouch for their content. (Most seem to be PG, though.)
3. Some are in progress and/or on hiatus and therefore incomplete.
4. Some have not yet started. (They’re marked.)
5. In my searching, I found a lot of people with partial lists that were very helpful, in particular: this list, this list, this list, this list, this list, and especially this list. Please give them love!
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