Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Ibsen's play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. In an English translation by Kenneth McLeish, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.

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

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

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.

Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.

Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.

An edition of Shakespeare's play that offers the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

An edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

A pivotal work of European culture, with a character that has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso.

Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the authoritative and accessible Shakespeare Folios series.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.