Nick Hern Books

After the Dance

Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.

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Ah! Wilderness

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.

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The Alchemist

By Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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All for Love

By John Dryden

Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

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All God's Chillun Got Wings

By Eugene O'Neill

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings

All's Well That Ends Well

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

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

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Amphitryon

Translated by Richard Wilbur

Molière's Amphitryon is based on a play by Plautus. In Molière's version, Jupiter's love affairs allude to those of the French king.

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Andromache

By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton

The story of Andromache, widow of the Trojan hero Hector. In the Drama Classics series.

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Anna Christie

By Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

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Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays

By Eugene O'Neill

Two compelling and thought-provoking plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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Antigone

By Sophocles Adapted by Owen McCafferty

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

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Antigone

By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonald

The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.

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An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.

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Arden of Faversham

By anonymous

A domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

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As You Like It

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

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

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Bacchae

By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

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Bartholomew Fair

By Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Bear

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

The Beaux Stratagem

By George Farquhar

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

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The Beggar's Opera

By John Gay

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

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Believe What You Will

By Philip Massinger

A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.