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Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama (pre-1945)

See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.

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King Ubu

King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

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.

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    The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    By Francis Beaumont

    A classic satire on chivalric romances. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    La Ronde

    La Ronde

    By Arthur Schnitzler Translated by Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan

    Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

    The Lady From the Sea

    The Lady From the Sea

    By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

    One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    The Lady from the Sea

    The Lady from the Sea

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Elinor Cook

    Ibsen's moving play about duty and self-determination, relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s.

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    By Oscar Wilde

    A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    The League of Youth

    The League of Youth

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

    Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

    The Learned Ladies

    The Learned Ladies

    By Molière Translated by A.R. Waller

    Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    Les Parents Terribles

    Les Parents Terribles

    By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

    Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

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    Life is a Dream

    Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse version)

    By Pedro Calderón Adapted by Helen Edmundson

    A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

    Life is a Dream

    Life is a Dream

    By Pedro Calderón Translated by John Clifford

    A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.

    Liolà

    Liolà

    By Tanya Ronder Original author Luigi Pirandello

    A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.

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    Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Richard Eyre

    Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.

    London Assurance

    London Assurance

    By Dion Boucicault

    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.

    Long Day's Journey into Night

    Long Day's Journey into Night

    By Eugene O'Neill

    A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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    Lorca: Three Plays

    Lorca: Three Plays

    By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

    Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume: Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.

    Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

    Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

    By Terence Rattigan

    The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

    Lovers' Quarrels

    Lovers' Quarrels

    Translated by Richard Wilbur

    An English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.

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