Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
The Tamer Tamed
An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
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Swansong
A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.
Summerfolk
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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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.
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Strange 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.
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Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.
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By Thomas KydA ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Slave 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 UbuSix Characters in Search of an Author
By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen MulrinePirandello'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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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.
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A Shoemaker, A Gentleman
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
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
By Carlo Goldoni Translated by Stephen MulrineA 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.
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By Ben JonsonA 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
A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.
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By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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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
A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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