Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Slave Ubu
By Alfred JarryThe 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 UbuThe Spanish Tragedy
By Thomas KydA ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Strange Interlude
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.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79
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.
- Paperback£12.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Summerfolk
By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen MulrineGorky'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.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£3.99£3.19Swansong
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.
Published in volume Chekhov: ShortsThe Tamer Tamed
An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
- Paperback
£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Tartuffe
By Molière Translated by Martin SorrellMoliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99The 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.
- Paperback
£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Thomas More
The incendiary story of Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, executed for failing to arrange Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
- Paperback
£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul SchmidtA clear, colloquial and accurate translation of Chekhov's play about the Prozorov family's dream of returning from the provinces to an idealised Moscow.
- Paperback£17.99
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
- Paperback
£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas WrightNicholas 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.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Tracy LettsAn energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.
- Paperback£14.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Cordelia LynnCordelia Lynn's version of Chekhov's play, about three sisters trapped in a provincial town, waiting for their lives to begin.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79
Newsletter Sign UpSign up to our newsletter for the latest titles, competitions and special offers...