Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
Flare Path
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.
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By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben PowerA thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Honest Whore
A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.
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The Antipodes
An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.
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King Leir
By AnonymousAn anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.
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The Witches of Lancashire
By Thomas Heywood and Richard BromeA sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.
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The Fleer
A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.
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The Tempest
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn eidition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Tracy LettsAn energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.
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The Seagull
A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.
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Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
Two compelling and thought-provoking plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays
Edited by Richard NelsonFour lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoking a world of gangsters, crooked cops, intrepid newpaper hacks and slightly tarnished damsels in distress.
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Peer Gynt
A fresh translation of one of the last great epics of the nineteenth century.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony BurgessThe nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
Two plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, developed and conceived in tandem, drawing on the raw experience of the author's own family relationships.
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Ah! Wilderness
An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
A trilogy of full-length plays relocating Aeschylus' Oresteia to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War.
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After the Dance
Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.
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