Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Flare Path
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Ivanov
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's compelling early play, set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£4.50£3.60Yerma
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordLorca's tale of an impassioned, childless woman who is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by David EdgarAn enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.
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£10.99£8.79
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Salome
By Oscar WildeThe savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing tragedy.
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£10.99£8.79
London Assurance
A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
Medea (Northern Broadsides version)
By Euripides Adapted by Tom PaulinEuripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.
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£9.99£7.99
Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse version)
By Pedro Calderón Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.
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£10.99£8.79
Wallenstein
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonSchiller'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.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Romeo and Juliet
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.
Fuente Ovejuna
By Lope de Vega Translated by Laurence BoswellA masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age, including one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Antigone
By Sophocles Adapted by Owen McCaffertyA muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Rosmersholm
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Mike PoultonA portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Merry Wives of Windsor
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£10.39
La Ronde
Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Wilde: Four Plays
By Oscar WildeAll four of Oscar Wilde's famous plays in one volume, with an introduction by Emma French.
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£6.99£5.59
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