Classic Drama

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

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The Bungler

Translated by Richard Wilbur

An English verse translation of Molière's first great play.

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Cardenio

Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

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Celestina

A pivotal work of European culture, with a character that has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso.

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The Changeling

Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

Chekhov: Four Plays

Anton Chekhov's four greatest plays in one volume - in sensitive, accurate and much-performed translations. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series.

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Chekhov: Shorts

A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.

The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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The Cherry Orchard

A unique edition of Chekhov's masterpiece in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.

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The Cherry Orchard

A fresh take on Chekhov's classic play, by the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans.

Children of the Sun

A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905.

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The City Madam (RSC edition)

A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.

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The Country Wife

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

Creditors

Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

Cuckold Ubu

A sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu

    The Custom of the Country

    A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

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    Cyrano de Bergerac

    The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

    The Dance of Death

    Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.

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    The Dance of Death

    A visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.

    Dances of Death

    A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.

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    Desire Under the Elms

    A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

      Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown

      Two plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, developed and conceived in tandem, drawing on the raw experience of the author's own family relationships.

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      The Devil is an Ass

      Ben Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.

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      The Devil's Charter

      A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

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