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Classic Drama

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

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An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Ibsen's play about an idealistic doctor whose moral resolve is put to the test when he discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated.

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Judgement Day

Judgement Day

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Mike Poulton

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

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Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

By Terence Rattigan

The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

Anna Christie

Anna Christie

By Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

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First Episode

First Episode

By Terence Rattigan and Philip Heimann

Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. With an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato. 

Emperor and Galilean

Emperor and Galilean

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben Power

A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

A Woman Killed with Kindness

A Woman Killed with Kindness

By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor Griffiths

A startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Luise Miller

Luise Miller

By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

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

Seagull

Seagull

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley

A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing (West End edition)

By William Shakespeare Edited by Robert Hastie and Josie Rourke

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

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The League of Youth

The League of Youth

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

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

The City Madam

The City Madam (RSC edition)

By Philip Massinger

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

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Cardenio

Cardenio

Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle

The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle

Translated by Richard Wilbur

English verse translations of Molière's two great comedies of marriage and misunderstanding.

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Lovers' Quarrels

Lovers' Quarrels

Translated by Richard Wilbur

An English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.

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The Bungler

The Bungler

Translated by Richard Wilbur

An English verse translation of Molière's first great play.

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Amphitryon

Amphitryon

Translated by Richard Wilbur

Molière's Amphitryon is based on a play by Plautus. In Molière's version, Jupiter's love affairs allude to those of the French king.

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

An 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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