Kenneth McLeish
Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.
The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books...
An English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics
Strindberg's classic naturalistic play, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. In the Nick Hern Books Dram...
Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
A classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series....
Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.
The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Book...
A classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Theb...
Ibsen's play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. In an English translation by...
Euripides' great tragedy, covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the dest...