Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
The Game Of Love And Chance
The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99
The Enchantment
The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39The Oresteia
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies: Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
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£3.99£3.19
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.
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£3.99£3.19
The Man of Mode
The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99
Orestes: Blood and Light
By Helen Edmundson Original author EuripidesAn explosive retelling of the most savage and powerful of ancient myths - the story of avenging siblings, Electra and Orestes.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19Henry IV Part II
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn 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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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Summerfolk
By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen MulrineGorky'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.
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£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£3.99£3.19The 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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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19The Wild Duck
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineIbsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£3.99£3.19Exiles
By James JoyceJames Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.
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£9.99£7.99
The Fleer
A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Noble Spanish Soldier
A revenge tragedy set in the Spanish court, filled with powerful dramatic moments of violence, pathos, satire and humour. Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn 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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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Beggar's Opera
By John GayJohn Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.
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£3.99£3.19
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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£5.99£4.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£5.99£4.79A Woman of No Importance
By Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of a long-concealed secret. 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.
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