Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama

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

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Ubu

Ubu

The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

An edition 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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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
    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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    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.

    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.

    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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    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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    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 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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    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
      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.

      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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      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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      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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      The Spanish Tragedy

      The Spanish Tragedy

      By Thomas Kyd

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

      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
        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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        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.

        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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