Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama

This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.

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She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

By Oliver Goldsmith

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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A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

By William Rowley

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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The Shoemakers' Holiday

The Shoemakers' Holiday

By Thomas Dekker

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.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Pirandello'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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Slave Ubu

Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

The 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 Ubu
    The Spanish Tragedy

    The Spanish Tragedy

    By Thomas Kyd

    A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    Spring Awakening

    Spring Awakening

    By Frank Wedekind Translated by Julian Forsyth and Margarete Forsyth

    Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

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    Strange Interlude

    Strange Interlude

    By Eugene O'Neill

    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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    Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

    Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

    Edited by Richard Nelson

    Four 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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    Summerfolk

    Summerfolk

    By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    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.

    Swansong

    Swansong

    By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

    Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
      The Tamer Tamed

      The Tamer Tamed

      By John Fletcher

      An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

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      Tartuffe

      Tartuffe

      By Molière Translated by Martin Sorrell

      Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

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      The Tempest

      The Tempest

      By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

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

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      Thomas More

      Thomas More

      By Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare and Henry Chettle

      The incendiary story of Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, executed for failing to arrange Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

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      Three Sisters

      Three Sisters

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul Schmidt

      A clear, colloquial and accurate translation of Chekhov's play about the Prozorov family's dream of returning from the provinces to an idealised Moscow.

      Three Sisters

      Three Sisters

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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      Three Sisters

      Three Sisters

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas Wright

      Nicholas 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.

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      Three Sisters

      Three Sisters

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Tracy Letts

      An energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.

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      Three Sisters

      Three Sisters

      By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Cordelia Lynn

      Cordelia Lynn's version of Chekhov's play, about three sisters trapped in a provincial town, waiting for their lives to begin.

      Thyestes

      Thyestes

      By Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

      Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

      'Tis Pity She's a Whore

      'Tis Pity She's a Whore

      By John Ford

      A classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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      A Touch of the Poet

      A Touch of the Poet

      By Eugene O'Neill

      A powerful play tracking the Yankee experience from innocence to corruption, from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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      A Tragic Figure

      A Tragic Figure

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

      Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts