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Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama (pre-1945)

See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.

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The Tamer Tamed

The Tamer Tamed

By John Fletcher

An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

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Swansong

Swansong

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

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

Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
    Summerfolk

    Summerfolk

    By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    Gorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

    Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

    Edited by Richard Nelson

    Four 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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    Strange Interlude

    Strange Interlude

    By Eugene O'Neill

    A controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length (9 acts), and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

    Spring Awakening

    Spring Awakening

    By Frank Wedekind Translated by Julian Forsyth and Margarete Forsyth

    Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

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    The Spanish Tragedy

    The Spanish Tragedy

    By Thomas Kyd

    A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    Slave Ubu

    Slave Ubu

    By Alfred Jarry

    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.

    Published in volume Ubu
      Six Characters in Search of an Author

      Six Characters in Search of an Author

      By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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      The Shoemakers' Holiday

      The Shoemakers' Holiday

      By Thomas Dekker

      A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

      A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

      By William Rowley

      In this entertainingly far-fetched play, Rowley combines mythical tales of the origin of St Alban's with folklore about the craft of shoemaking to produce a comic history which draws together the foundations of British nationhood.

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      She Stoops to Conquer

      She Stoops to Conquer

      By Oliver Goldsmith

      The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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      The Servant of Two Masters

      The Servant of Two Masters

      By Carlo Goldoni Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      Sejanus: His Fall

      Sejanus: His Fall

      By Ben Jonson

      A gripping historical tragedy, set in the time of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, about a man ruthlessly working his way to the top, destroying everyone in his path.

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      Seagull

      Seagull

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley

      A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.

      The Seagull

      The Seagull

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Chekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

      The Seagull

      The Seagull

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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

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      The School for Scandal

      The School for Scandal

      By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

      A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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