Classic Drama

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

Schiller's epic trilogy set during the Thirty Years' War, adapted into a gripping single play with all the drama and twists of fate of a Shakespearean tragedy.

Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.

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

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

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

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

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Two powerful expressionist plays from the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions.

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.

The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.

A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

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.