Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Four plays by the great French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) in accomplished modern translations by American theatre practitioners.

An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.

A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece by American playwright Richard Nelson, in collaboration with the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

A sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.