Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Measure for Measure
An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Mayor of Queenborough, or Hengist, King of Kent
Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Master Builder
An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79
The Master Builder
Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Mary Stuart
Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99The Marriage of Figaro
By Pierre Beaumarchais Translated by Stephen MulrineA classic five-act French comedy by Beaumarchais, the source for Mozart's famous opera of the same name. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Mandate
By Nikolai Erdman Adapted by Declan DonnellanA chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79
The Man of Mode
The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99
The Malcontent
By John MarstonA tragicomedy full of courtly intrigue, betrayal and jealousy. In the Nick Hern Books RSC Classics series.
- Paperback
£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
A Mad World, My Masters
A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Machine Wreckers
By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley DukesA classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Machinal
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Machinal (2018 edition)
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
- Ebook
£10.99£8.79
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse edition)
By William Shakespeare Edited by Max WebsterShakespeare's most extraordinary psychological drama in a version premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, directed by Max Webster. With behind-the-scenes material exploring how the production was conceived and developed.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Lysistrata
By Aristophanes Translated by Patric DickinsonThe ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Lulu
By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas WrightThe 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.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
Luise Miller
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonA masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
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