Classic Drama

Four plays by the great French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) in accomplished modern translations by American theatre practitioners.

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

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

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

The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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 classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.

Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

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

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

Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.

The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.