Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
King Leir
An anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
King Lear
An 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.
Julius Caesar
An 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.
Judgement Day
An adaptation of Ibsen's extraordinary last play, When We Dead Awaken, one of his most deeply personal works.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)
Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
John Gabriel Borkman (English Touring Theatre version)
A sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre version)
A gripping version of Ibsen's most contemporary play, first performed at the Bridge Theatre, London, in 2022.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe's drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
Ivanov
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's compelling early play, set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£4.50£3.60Ivanov
Chekhov's character study of a man undone by his own spiritual malaise, in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.
- Paperback£21.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
An Italian Straw Hat
By Eugène Labiche Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99The Island Princess
A lyrical and poetic Discovery Play about Princess Quisara of the Indonesian island of Tidore, who vows to marry the man who can free her imprisoned brother.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Inspector
A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece by American playwright Richard Nelson, in collaboration with the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
- Paperback£15.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's undying comedy – in an edition to fit any handbag.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Illusion
By Pierre Corneille Adapted by Tony KushnerAn enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all – love.
- Paperback£14.99
An Ideal Husband
By Oscar WildeThe Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
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£4.99£3.99
Ibsen: Three Plays
Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, in sensitive and playable translations from the original Norwegian, along with a full introduction to the author, his times and his work.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39The Hypochondriac
By Molière Translated by Martin SorrellMolière's classic farce in a fresh and performable translation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99
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