Classic Drama (pre-1945)

A fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethe's 'unstageable' masterpiece.

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

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

A revenge tragedy set in the Spanish court, filled with powerful dramatic moments of violence, pathos, satire and humour. Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe.

A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.

James Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.

Ibsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Strindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a version by Mike Poulton.

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.

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

The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.

All four of Oscar Wilde's famous plays in one volume, with an introduction by Emma French.

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

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

García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.