Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Oedipus
Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.
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£4.99£3.99
The Devil's Charter
A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Custom of the Country
A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Uncle Vanya
Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.
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£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Peer Gynt
Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Rover
By Aphra BehnA classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. 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 House of Bernarda Alba
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Rona MunroGarcía Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39She Stoops to Conquer
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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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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
Children of the Sun
By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen MulrineA Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905.
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£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Antipodes
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£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Changeling
By Thomas Middleton and William RowleyMiddleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Antigone
By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonaldThe first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
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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 Merry Devil of Edmonton
By AnonymousA popular comedy from the early-17th century, combining romance, magic, deer poaching and abduction from a nunnery. Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
A Flea in Her Ear
By Georges Feydeau Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. 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.Ebook£4.99£3.99Blood Wedding & Yerma
García Lorca's two most famous plays translated by two of America's most gifted poets.
- Paperback£18.99
The Lady From the Sea
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishOne of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
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
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