Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama

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

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The Wedding

The Wedding

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
    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
      Ghosts

      Ghosts

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Richard Eyre

      Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.

      Liolà

      Liolà

      By Tanya Ronder Original author Luigi Pirandello

      A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.

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      Dances of Death

      Dances of Death

      By Howard Brenton Original author August Strindberg

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

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      Medea

      Medea (Headlong version)

      By Euripides Adapted by Mike Bartlett

      A bold new version of the classic tragedy by one of Britain's hottest playwrights.

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      The Servant of Two Masters

      The Servant of Two Masters

      By Carlo Goldoni Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      The House of Bernarda Alba

      The House of Bernarda Alba

      By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

      Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.

      The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

      The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

      By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin Counsell

      An intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      An Enemy of the People

      An Enemy of the People

      By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Ibsen'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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      Judgement Day

      Judgement Day

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Mike Poulton

      An adaptation of Ibsen's extraordinary last play, When We Dead Awaken, one of his most deeply personal works.

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      Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

      Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

      By Terence Rattigan

      The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

      Anna Christie

      Anna Christie

      By Eugene O'Neill

      Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

      First Episode

      First Episode

      By Terence Rattigan and Philip Heimann

      Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. With an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato. 

      Emperor and Galilean

      Emperor and Galilean

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben Power

      A 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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      A Woman Killed with Kindness

      A Woman Killed with Kindness

      By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor Griffiths

      A startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      Luise Miller

      Luise Miller

      By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

      A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.

      Seagull

      Seagull

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley

      A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.

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      Much Ado About Nothing

      Much Ado About Nothing (West End edition)

      By William Shakespeare Edited by Robert Hastie and Josie Rourke

      A consummate romantic comedy that dramatises the battle of the sexes with a dazzling display of Shakespeare's wit and wordplay.

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      The League of Youth

      The League of Youth

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

      Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

      The City Madam

      The City Madam (RSC edition)

      By Philip Massinger

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

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      Cardenio

      Cardenio

      Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

      By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

      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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      The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle

      The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle

      Translated by Richard Wilbur

      English verse translations of Molière's two great comedies of marriage and misunderstanding.

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      Lovers' Quarrels

      Lovers' Quarrels

      Translated by Richard Wilbur

      An English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.

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