Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Doctor Faustus
The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.
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A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
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A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Thornton WilderThornton Wilder's scintillating version of Ibsen's classic play.
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A Doll's House (Sheffield Theatres version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Chris BushA taut and gripping adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama, premiered at the Crucible, Sheffield Theatres, in 2024.
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Don Carlos
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonSchiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.
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Don Juan
By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeishMolière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.
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£3.99£3.19
A Dream Play
By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
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The Duchess of Malfi
By John WebsterThe macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Eastward Ho!
A collaboratively written City Comedy which sees true love and virtue triumphing over social-climbing, deception and trickery. In the Nick Hern Books RSC Classics series.
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Edward II
The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.
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Edward III
Officially attributed to Shakespeare only in 1998, Edward III is set in the age of chivalry and chronicles the beginning of the 100 Years War. Following the exploits of Edward, the Black Prince, it also acts as a prequel to Richard II.
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Electra
Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Electra
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Elektra (West End edition)
By Sophokles Translated by Anne CarsonThe timeless Greek tragedy, in a magisterial translation by award-winning poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson. Published alongside the West End production in 2025.
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Emperor and Galilean
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben PowerA thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.
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The Emperor Jones
An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
The Enchantment
By Victoria Benedictsson Adapted by Clare BayleyThe extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.
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An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineIbsen's play about an idealistic doctor whose moral resolve is put to the test when he discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated.
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An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur MillerArthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.
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An Enemy of the People
Ibsen's provocative play about truth in a society driven by power and money, given a startling contemporary spin in Thomas Ostermeier and Florian Borchmeyer's acclaimed version, here in an English translation by Duncan Macmillan.
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Exiles
By James JoyceJames Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.
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Fantasio and other plays
Four plays by the great French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) in accomplished modern translations by American theatre practitioners.
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The Father
By August Strindberg Adapted by Mike PoultonStrindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a version by Mike Poulton.
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Faust Parts 1 & 2
By Johann Wolfgang Goethe Translated by John CliffordA fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethe's 'unstageable' masterpiece.
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