Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
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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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Ah! 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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£12.99£10.39
The Alchemist
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEPUB£4.99£3.99All for Love
By John DrydenDryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEPUB£4.99£3.99All God's Chillun Got Wings
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 WingsAll's Well That Ends Well
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the authoritative and accessible Shakespeare Folios series.
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£12.99£10.39
Amphitryon
Translated by Richard WilburMolière's Amphitryon is based on a play by Plautus. In Molière's version, Jupiter's love affairs allude to those of the French king.
- Paperback£14.99
Andromache
The story of Andromache, widow of the Trojan hero Hector. In the Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
Anna Christie
Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.
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£10.99£8.79
Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
Two compelling and thought-provoking plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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£12.99£10.39
Antigone
By Sophocles Adapted by Owen McCaffertyA muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Antigone (Drama Classics)
By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonaldThe first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEPUB£4.99£3.99The Antipodes (Globe Quarto)
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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£14.99£11.99
Arden of Faversham
By AnonymousA 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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£9.99£7.99
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play that offers the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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£12.99£10.39
Bacchae
The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
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By Ben JonsonBen 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 MulrineA one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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