Classic Drama

J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Oscar Wilde's undying comedy – in an edition to fit any handbag.

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

A Jacobean tale of personal vengeance in a morally bankrupt world. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

A classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury.

Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

A 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.

Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.

A classic satire on chivalric romances. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.