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Nick Hern Books

Classic Drama

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

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Don Juan

Don Juan

By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.

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Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun

By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

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

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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

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.

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A Flea in Her Ear

A Flea in Her Ear

By Georges Feydeau Translated by Kenneth McLeish

A classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Lady From the Sea

The Lady From the Sea

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Andromache

Andromache

By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton

The story of Andromache, widow of the Trojan hero Hector. In the Drama Classics series.

Rosmersholm

Rosmersholm

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. In an English translation by Kenneth McLeish, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Ibsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Women of Troy

Women of Troy

By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Euripides' great tragedy, covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the destructive power of war. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Electra

Electra

By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton

Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

 

Hecuba

Hecuba

By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald

An English translation of Euripides' classic tragedy, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Summerfolk

Summerfolk

By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Gorky'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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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera

By John Gay

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

By Thomas Middleton

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

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The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones

By Eugene O'Neill

An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms

    By Eugene O'Neill

    A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

    Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
      The Great God Brown

      The Great God Brown

      By Eugene O'Neill

      A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

      Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
        The Hairy Ape

        The Hairy Ape

        By Eugene O'Neill

        A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

        Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
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