Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse version)
A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.
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£12.99£10.39
Life is a Dream
A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Liolà
By Tanya Ronder Original author Luigi PirandelloA funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Little Eyolf
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Richard EyreIbsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99London Assurance
A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
Long Day's Journey into Night
A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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£9.99£7.99
Lorca: Three Plays
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordThree of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume: Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind
The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Lovers' Quarrels
Translated by Richard WilburAn English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.
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Luise Miller
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonA masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.
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£9.99£7.99
Lulu
By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas WrightThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
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£9.99£7.99
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes Translated by Patric DickinsonThe ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse edition)
By William Shakespeare Edited by Max WebsterShakespeare's most extraordinary psychological drama in a version premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, directed by Max Webster. With behind-the-scenes material exploring how the production was conceived and developed.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Machinal
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Machinal (2018 edition)
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
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£10.99£8.79
The Machine Wreckers
By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley DukesA classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
A Mad World, My Masters
A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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